Shane Parrish

He feels happy, energetic, all from a simple rule.

Nobody pushes back on his rule.

And he doesn't push back on his rule.

We've been brought up our whole lives to follow rules, but nobody's ever taught us how to create these rules and take advantage of them for ourselves.

But that's not how we're brought up to think about rules, right?

So you don't drive down the road every morning, look at the speed limit and wonder why it's set at, you know, 70 miles an hour or 70 kilometers an hour or whatever it's set out where you're located.

You know it's a rule.

Nobody has to remind you it's a rule.

You just know it, you follow it, you learned it once, and that's all it took.

And it's the same way with our head.

Try it.

We have a 99.8% success rate, I think.

We've tried this on 10,000 people, and I think there's like 20 people who are like, it didn't work for me.

Like, it's insane.

I mean, you can do that if you want.

I mean, you know, there's obvious situations where your rules won't apply, right?

There's a saying that the...

young man knows the rules and the old man knows the exceptions.

And I think it's wise to keep that in mind.

And it's not about being perfect with your rule.