**Example #2**: a young elephant with one leg tied up with a small rope to a pole, recognizes the futility of the struggle to get loose, and stops trying to fight the rope. A belief is now installed that “I can’t get loose when a rope is tied to my leg.” As an adult, the elephant continues to operate this way, even when the elephant is more than capable of taking down the pole \[programmed belief\]. This elephant will stop trying to get loose as soon as a rope is tied to a leg \[maladaptive action\], even when this concept or belief is clearly obsolete or in conflict with the intentions or perceptions of our conscious mind. **In my opinion**: It may be similar to tensing the speech muscles. After we developed a mindset that we need to apply or rely on tension during a trigger, we started developing fluency demands to execute speech movements or initiate articulation, such as: * "As long as I don't have complete faith in my speech, executing speech movements becomes harder". * "As long as I immerse myself in negative experiences (such as, not being able to speak when knocking on the woman's door), executing speech motor plans becomes harder" * "As long as I'm convinced that it was too soon to enter medical school, executing speech motor plans becomes harder" * "As long as I'm convinced that I'm (socially) sensitive to environmental stimuli (which is in conflict with becoming a doctor), executing speech motor plans becomes harder" (in comparison to his dad as a doctor, or the other med-students) * "As long as I'm convinced that escape might be difficult or help wouldn't be readily available if things go wrong, executing speech motor plans becomes harder" * "As long as I'm convinced that other's lack of sensitivity prevents them from empathizing with and properly understanding my stutter experience, executing speech motor plans becomes harder" * "As long as I believe that my speech is good enough, and I do not care about how people react to my speech, executing speech motor plans becomes easier" * "As long as I believe that my secondary responses are not sufficient enough to keep the listener's attention, executing speech motor plans becomes harder" (to increase the likelihood of getting the message accross) * "The less abnormal my secondary behaviors become, the harder it becomes to execute speech motor plans." (Argument: Because, the less abnormal my secondary behaviors become, the less likely my listeners continue to pay attention to me while I am trying to speak) * "The more controlled a stutter becomes, the harder it is to execute speech motor plans" (Argument: Because the more it is likely to appear to listeners that I'm stuttering on purpose) * "The more I fear that my speech would let me down at the moments I needed it most (e.g., the motorbike crash), the harder it is to execute speech motor plans" * Similar to the young elephant