A false feeling of freedom, much like our Democracy, is one of the best ways to keep people under control.
And many times people you relate too will give you a bit more rope for you to roam a bit more freely, at first you’ll feel exhilarated with all the new things you can accomplish. That is until you realize you can’t do much more than what you were doing before, in fact, when applied to a work position, this means you continue to do the same as before, and a bit more!
The only way for you to escape the walls or grasp placed upon you, even with your newly found “freedom” is to keep pushing the walls back and breaking the limits of what you are and aren’t supposed to do.
You have to question your ability to fulfill a certain task as much as your superior questions your ability to respond to them. The people who rise in high-hierarchy companies faster are not those that limit themselves to what they should do, but those that take the extra steps and blur the lines between their rank and the next.
It’s not about whether your good enough or not to accomplish the task, it’s whether or not you’ll take the extra effort, go the extra mile, read an extra book, and accomplish the task successfully. As Paul Arden’s book I recently read is called, and underline once more: “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be.”