The "Rules" That Hold You Back In Life
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In October 1903, an article appeared in The New York Times that confidently predicted it would take between one to ten million years for humans to develop airplanes.
While seemingly ludicrous today, it's important to note that at the time, almost everyone, including leading scientists and journalists, believed human flight was a fantasy.
Heavier-than-air objects could not fly. It was impossible.
It had become more than a belief. For most of society, it was treated as a rule.
But just a few hundred miles away from the newspaper's headquarters, two brothers were hard at work in a small bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio.
They were working to break that rule.
They didn't have money, fancy credentials, or notoriety. They just had an insatiable curiosity and a refusal to accept this "rule" about human flight as fact.
Just nine weeks after the New York Times article, on December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright took flight for 12 seconds in their man-made flying machine in an open field in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
As it turns out, the rule that humans couldn't fly was a mere suggestion.
That same phenomenon plays out every single day—not in the sky, but in your mind.
There is a concept in cognitive science called the Illusory Truth Effect:
It's the tendency to believe false information after consistent, repeated exposures. In other words, if you're told something over and over again, it takes root in your mind as a truth.
This is how suggestions slowly, silently start to feel like rules.
And these suggestions come in a variety of forms:
Sometimes, they're the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what you're capable of. Sometimes, they're the unspoken expectations of your family, friends, or environment. And sometimes they're the default sources of meaning and fulfillment you've been told to care about.
If you're not careful, over time, these suggestions will start to feel like rules.
You'll stop questioning them and start organizing your entire life around them.
But here's the truth: Most of the "rules" shaping your life are anything but.
So this week, ask yourself:
What rules am I following that are really just suggestions?
Because just like the Wright Brothers, breaking the rules might be exactly what you need to take flight.
