by Mags, 4 September 2009

iCUBED.us would like to introduce a series we're calling "Historical Heroes", the idea is to present real people from history whose lives, work and endeavors have contributed to the betterment of society or humanity.

If you have stories or people from history you feel fit in this series, don't hesitate to suggest them to us but today we would like to begin this series by presenting a past iCUBED.us entry that pushed our expectation about "human endurance".

THE GREATEST ATHLETIC FEAT IN THE 20th CENTURY: SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY and THE WILL TO WIN...by Mags , 11 January 2009
Before Briton, Roger Bannister, ran a mile in 3-minutes, 59.4 seconds - everyone believed that it was physically impossible - because so many had tried to run a mile in under four-minutes, and no one could do it. This is a limiting belief, a psychological barrier. But in training for this, Bannister needed to imagine that it would be possible - contrary to what the experts were saying at the time - that it's "physically impossible" just because it hadn't yet been done.

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Please click here to read : HISTORICAL HERO: The Father of Modern Science, Galileo Galilei HISTORICAL HERO: The Kindness of Strangers: Sir Nicholas Winton MBE HISTORICAL HEROES: “Seabiscuit, An Unlikely Inspiration” Historical Hero: SIR JOHN WILSON – A True Visionary Who Worked to Save Sight and Prevent Disabilities ... Historical Hero: Thomas Edison – Inventor for the Ages!