I love the framing of this 2020 blog post of things you’re allowed to do. It’s not quite that everything that’s not explicitly prohibited is implicitly permitted, because it’s not. It’s more that there are unusual things you can do to make yourself much more effective, that most people don’t think to do because they’re never made clear. Like lifehacks, but for life.

More generally stated, try to come up with other options. It’s easy to get stuck in the mindset of needing to do either X or Y. There are dozens of other things you could do that would also achieve your goals that have nothing to do with X or Y.