Break Rules Not Laws

Tunde Ola
3 min readFeb 23, 2020
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You don’t need to tell people what you do, it’s clearly written on your face. You don’t need to keep telling people whether you will succeed or fail, they already know themselves. Your attitude towards life will determine whether you will succeed or fail in life. Most people see success as something enigmatic but earnestly success is one of the uncluttered things of all. Do you know why? It has laws.

During my first year in college we did a course called Linear Algebra in this course there was this topic which I can’t call to mind for now. This topic has three laws and these laws were the first concepts that was explained in the book I was learning this topic from. The first time I read this topic I took those laws flippantly and I really struggled to understand what this topic entails. The second time which was the next day I took my time to understand those three laws, then what seems inscrutable became one of the easiest thing I have ever learned in my entire life. With this three laws I could solve any problems related to this topic. The same way this topic was, that’s the same the way success is.

Every manufacturer wants the success of his or her products either Apple or Microsoft, they all wants their product to succeed. And that’s the same way you are, you are a product from somewhere and your success is really your manufacturer deepest interest. But there are some laws that has been laid down for you to obey if you really want to exhaust all that what was trapped inside of you.For example, Apple will say keep this phone away from water or else it will malfunction — that’s a law from the manufacturer. There are some laws your manufacturer has also put in place for you too to follow for you not to malfunction.

You need to know that your are designed to succeed and you need to start acting like such. Your success isn’t ahead or behind you, your success is trapped inside of you. So no matter where you are, either America or a little country like Vatican City you can succeed. Why? Because your success is not in a place, your success is in you — your success is you. You just need to follow the laws which has been laid down by your manufacturer.

Like someone said, you don’t break laws you allows laws to break you. So the first step in being successful is to first study the laws which has already been laid down by your manufacturer. A law breaking you means you become restricted to some activities. For example the Law of Gravity is a law of nature, this law restrict you from jumping off a five (5) storey building because you unswervingly know that you will fall and maybe die.

Never confuse a rule with a law, they are two different things. I will like to differentiate them like this: Rules are meant to be broken by you and you are meant to be broken by laws. Some years ago, Mount Everest was an impossible mountain to climb, this was a rule until it was broken by Edmund Hillary and his team. Whether you will succeed or fail will be greatly dependent on you differentiating what laws and rules mean to you. You need to break one of this to succeed and you need one of this to break you in order to release all the successes that was trapped inside of you by your manufacturer.

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