" we’ve been taught to think small, to stay within the lines, to fit in and follow the rules, other people’s rules. These rules are designed to help us fit into society, but they work counter to our innate desire to achieve Level 10 success. Nowhere in my formal education was I taught how to think outside the box, explore my unique gifts, or discover which rules the world’s most successful people played by, which would have given me a clear road map showing me the way to join them. Where was that curriculum? The standard life track is to go to school, get a steady job, and work until you’re sixty-five, when hopefully you’ll have enough money for a mediocre retirement. We are conditioned to be responsible, docile, and average—to fit in. But all of this behavior is learned. It has nothing to do with the person that you are or, rather, can choose to be. Eventually we learn to distrust our own instincts and become cynical toward ourselves. We see people who achieve extraordinary success as outliers. They are “different.” Starting from childhood and over many years, we are conditioned by other people’s beliefs about what is possible for us. "

― Hal Elrod , The Miracle Equation: The Two Decisions That Move Your Biggest Goals from Possible, to Probable, to Inevitable