If It Feels Like Cheating

Garth Beyer

Somewhere back in school they wired your brain to obey an invisible referee.

You remember. That prickly guilt when you discovered the kid who wrote formulas on his arm and hid it under his wristband. Or the quiet horror when someone shared last years exam. The lesson was simple. If it feels like cheating it must be wrong.

Fast forward to adult life where there are no exams and no proctor and somehow you are still raising your hand to ask permission.

You want to excel.

You want to move faster.

But you are allergic to anything that feels too easy.

So you grind.

Here is the secret no one bothered to underline for you in fluorescent highlighter.

If you want to excel, start doing more things that feel like cheating but are not.

In school they called this cheating.

In real life we call it leverage.

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