Many of the most common brules are dressed up as virtues: 'be realistic,' 'success equals hard work,' 'the pursuit of money is wrong,' 'you need a college degree.' That's the trick — they feel like good advice while quietly capping your ceiling. The louder a rule sounds like wisdom, the more suspicious it deserves to be.
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