“Be Your Unapologetically Weird Self” “I gave a commencement speech in Minnesota few years ago [at the Carlson School of Management]. The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.” An excerpt from that speech: “Weirdness is why we adore our friends. . . .

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We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves

To reclaim weird is also to know what it isn’t. It is not a performative, desperate attempt to be different in order to forcefully grab attention. It is an attunement to authenticity - the art of discovering our own true texture and daring to share it. This is lifelong work. Work that takes time and space, trial and error, courage, curiosity, and... See more