That Viral 'Chinese Proverb' Is Actually Fake

I wanna start with a line you have almost certainly seen, maybe printed on

a plaque or, you know, on a poster in a conference room. It's this,

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." Hmm.

It feels timeless, right? Like it has to be ancient. It has that immediate

weight, that gravitas, and that's exactly why it's such a perfect place to

start. Because that line, which you see all over the corporate world,

often comes with a label, Chinese proverb. Right? In 2018,

it even went viral when it was tweeted out with exactly that attribution. So,