..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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This is saying that even though people tend to believe things like never falling or rising up after falling, these things are not always true. It is just that they have become so much a part of the culture that to question them would be to question the foundation of your life.

Source: Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience

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