You’ll outgrow some advice too. Even good advice has an age range.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Guidance is written for a situation, and situations expire. Be careful was excellent counsel when you had no judgment and becomes a cage once you do. The rules that protected you at fourteen can be the ones limiting you at twenty four, without anybody noticing the switch. Keeping advice past its usefulness is how people stay in shapes they outgrew.

Take one rule you follow without thinking and ask when you adopted it. Check whether the conditions that made it wise are still true. Keep it, revise it, or retire it on purpose rather than by drift.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which advice fit you at fourteen and cramps you now?

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