The Rules to Break, 2nd Edition

Introduction

When you’re young you’re told all sorts of things: I want doesn’t get, the best things in life are free, familiarity breeds contempt, patience is a virtue. And others personal to your own family or teachers. Some of them are drilled into you, some of them you just pick up along the way. As you get older, you pick up even more sayings, principles and beliefs, many of which you just assume to be true and never think to question. So by the time you arrive into adulthood, you’re living by a mixed bag of so-called ‘rules’, whether you know it or not. You might only know it when you suddenly find yourself spouting one of them to a struggling friend or youngster and then think ‘where on earth did that come from?’

Trouble is these principles, ...