<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Families, schools, professions, and cultures train... > Families, schools, professions, and cultures train perception through reward, punishment, imitation, and role assignment. Those pressures teach which ambitions feel respectable, ridiculous, dangerous, or impossible before a person evaluates them independently. Self-knowledge begins by separating inherited limits from observed reality. **Source:** [[livestreams/Recognizing Opportunity and Answering Your Calling - Workbook|Recognizing Opportunity and Answering Your Calling]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Families, schools, professions, and cultures train perception through reward, punishment, imitation, and role assignment. Those pressures teach which ambitions feel respectable, ridiculous, dangerous, or impossible before a person evaluates them independently. Self-knowledge begins by separating inherited limits from observed reality.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-families-schools-professions-limits-observed-reality ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->