What is how to teach boundaries by example?

How to teach boundaries by example is a concept in personal epistemology: The best way to teach boundaries is to model them. When you set and maintain healthy boundaries, you give others permission to do the same.

Example: Your team has an unspoken norm of responding to Slack messages within minutes, even at 10 PM. You start closing your laptop at 6 and not responding until morning. The first week, nothing changes. By the third week, two teammates mention they've started doing the same. You didn't lecture anyone about work-life balance. You didn't send a policy memo. You demonstrated that boundaries were possible here, and that was enough to shift what others believed they were allowed to do.

This concept is part of Phase 33 (Boundary Setting) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for boundary setting.