Break the ‘Rules’

I have spent years reading books from the self-help/self-improvement industry in the hopes of creating meaningful change in my life. From Dale Carnegie and Jim Rohn to Stephen Covey and Jack Canfield to Tony Robbins and Ryan Holiday, I had been searching for hacks, strategies, or tricks to improve my life. And when you accept someone else’s—and really a whole generation’s—definition of success, you’re tempted to believe (as I did until recently) that you are broken. Because you haven’t kept up w...