RULES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN NAZREEN MOHAMAD
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don’t care who you are or what you do, but if you tell me that you have no dreams, no ambitions, or no goals, you’re either lying to yourself or just simply nuts. You see, I truly believe that all of us have a personal picture of the life that we want to lead and have, somewhere in our hearts. We think about things that we want to achieve, things that would make us feel like life can’t possibly get any better. Yet, most of the time, we don’t do these things that would actually satisfy our imagination and better yet, our lives. Why? Because of written rules, bespoken laws and of course those regulations you keep on hearing about.
opinions.
You have to be above 35 years of age to run for that CEO position. You must include percussion sounds in rap songs. It’s insisted that you have to get the absolute highest test result in order to study abroad. I really don’t like the words I’m hearing; “have to” “must” “insist”? You see ‘rules’ such as these become ingrained in our heads to the extent that we start to believe that they are actually “the truth”. Truth of the matter is, the truth is relative, and rules are merely enforced
The unspoken ‘rule’ is that only those who are really good at specific tasks should be the ones doing something. So if you’re not a natural talent or unbelievably good at something, just quit already - nothing stinks of more bullshit than this. On the contrary, because you don’t have a lot of experience, is why you should be doing it. Countless authors have cited that experience actually stifles innovation. The more of an ‘expert’ somebody becomes, the more entrenched they
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It used to be a ‘rule’ that the sun revolved around the earth, anybody who thinks that now, is straight up stupid. How arrogant are we to think that everything that we consider as the ‘truth’ today, will remain so until the end of time? On a smaller scale, it’s even more ridiculous to abide by any form of regulation or restrictions in the pursuit of your passion. I’m going to elaborate on this through three common ways these rules stop people from doing what they really want. “Only the superior and smarter individuals will make it”