A speed bump isn’t against you. It’s protecting someone you haven’t seen yet.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Rules that slow you down usually exist because of something you cannot see from inside your own hurry. The inconvenience is obvious and immediate while the reason is invisible and statistical, so the whole thing reads as obstruction aimed at you personally. Most of it is aimed at a risk rather than at a person.

When a process irritates you, spend a minute asking what it might be preventing. If the answer is nothing, work to change it properly. If it is something, let the delay be the price of not finding out the hard way.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which rule that annoys you might protect somebody else?

MORE IN MEANING & PERSPECTIVE

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