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Protocol Series 5 · #08
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You Don't
Need Permission
On finding your own authority
most of the walls you're waiting to be let through don't have a gatekeeper. just you.
The Protocol · 5 steps
1
The permission was never external
you invented most of the gates. you can also open them.
2
Spot the borrowed “no”
whose voice is stopping you? often it's a rule nobody actually enforces anymore.
3
Act, then ask forgiveness
it's easier to adjust a thing you did than to get pre-approval for a thing you might.
4
Trust your own read
you're allowed to decide what matters to you without a committee.
5
Authority is taken by using it
you become someone who does the thing by doing the thing.
Run it: name one thing you've been waiting for permission to do. give yourself the permission, in writing.
“the permission slip is blank. sign it yourself.”
TL;DR no external gate → spot the borrowed no → act → trust yourself → take authority
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