If the Sky is the Limit, How to Reach Pluto?

"The sky is the limit" is meant to inspire — but taken literally, it caps ambition at the atmosphere. If the sky is the limit, how do we ever reach Pluto?

The problem with borrowed limits

Most ceilings we accept were set by someone else's imagination. The moment we treat them as physics rather than opinion, we stop looking past them.

Reaching further

• Question the limit before you accept it.
• Break the impossible into the merely difficult.
• Measure progress by direction, not just distance.

Takeaway

Pluto was reached not by respecting the sky, but by ignoring it as a boundary. The same is true of any ambition worth having.