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“You Cannot Stand Out and Fit in at the Same Time”
Thousands of years ago it was in a human’s best interest to fit in as best as possible. You didn’t want to provoke your community and you certainly did not want to upset the status quo. Not even if what you had to say was helpful.
Life was about survival, not risk and this way of thinking has been passed down through the generations like a cursed heirloom.
Why a cursed heirloom? Because it doesn’t pay to fit in anymore. It’s a hindrance. A different world requires different approaches and different solutions to old problems.
One’s unique upbringing can be used as leverage to introduce the world to a new way of thinking, a new system of technology or a new form of entertainment. To minimize that is professional suicide, personal disrespect and robbing the world of what it needs to progress.
Even if it is the world that is ridiculing one’s identity and ideas.
Steve Jobs famously said, “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” In my opinion, sometimes you can show them and they still will dismiss it. But when they check you a few years later they’re desperate for what you got.
Turns out you were ahead of the curb. You’re a visionary now but a few years ago you were ignored. But you realized it was easier to be who…
