There Are No Rules #

Play by the rules and… lose.

There are two types of rules—the hard and steady ones that exist for a reason, keeping you from doing harmful things. These are good rules.

Then there are rules that exist just because. Rules made by people who don’t want to be bothered, to maintain the status quo, and protect what’s theirs. Those rules aren’t your rules.

Don’t do something only because “it is the way it is being done.” Think. Go back to first principles—the first basis from which a thing is known—and ask yourself: Is this a good rule? Does it benefit society? Or does it just serve the gatekeepers? If so, ignore it, rewrite it, or break it.

It is not YOUR rule.