On Self-Imposed Rules

I was recently fascinated by the many crude truths in Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death, one of which was that we humans need to carve up the immense complexity and cruelty of the universe by building symbolic vehicles to make life manageable. Rulesets are one kind of such symbolic vehicles. They provide the self-imposed artificial limitations that enable you to flourish.
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