About this quote

Belief about limits often becomes a self-imposed fence. If you don't already know the rule that says something can't be done, you try it instead of talking it to death. Start one small experiment this week that experts would call 'impossible' and treat it like a test, not a final verdict. You will get clearer feedback faster when you act than when you wait for permission.

When to use it

• At my job, when everyone said the new app feature would be too slow, I quoted this and built a bare-bones prototype to see what happened.
• As a student assigned an impossible-looking art installation, I used the line to stop overplanning and started cutting cardboard instead; the piece came together.
• After forty, I told myself this before trying a yoga handstand—stopping the mental rules let me practice without fear and I improved quickly.
• I kept this in mind before opening a tiny shop selling weird vintage lamps; ignoring the 'can't work' voices helped me test the idea fast and learn what customers wanted.