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Why You Should Break Through Your BoundariesYou set boundaries without realizing it, but boundaries, like rules, are made to be broken.

ByJason Feifer

This story appears in theJanuary 2021issue of雷竞技手机版.Subscribe »

Nigel Parry

Have you ever seen a dog that's trained with an electronic collar? It's quite a thing. They learn where their boundary is and then never cross it. It's as if they're stuck behind an invisible wall.

Now here's a horrifying idea: We humans are a lot like those dogs. We also stop short of invisible walls. We've done it our entire careers. But unlike dogs, we often make thoseboundariesourselves.

That was my big takeaway from the year 2020 — because it was the year a lot of those invisible walls came down. We stopped ruling out ideas just because they seemed hard or inconvenient. We stopped hewing to old dogma aboutthe way things have to be done.We were pushed out of ourcomfort zones, out past those boundaries, and we discovered everything we were missing. New ideas and new courage flowed as a result. Then we started to reinvent. To rediscover. To expand our lives and our businesses.

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