Bruce Lee's words push back directly against one of the quiet ways people hold themselves back, deciding in advance what they are actually capable of, long before they have genuinely tested it. "If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life," he said. "There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." This exact quote has been shared by the official Bruce Lee Family Company, the organisation run by his daughter Shannon Lee that manages his archive and legacy, lending it real weight even without a single perfectly pinned interview transcript. The theme also closely echoes his famous 1971 conversation with Canadian broadcaster Pierre Berton, filmed in Hong Kong and often referred to as "the lost interview," where Lee spoke at length about pushing past a plateau and constantly exceeding one's own current level.
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