072:The Business of Being Different: Why Your Weird is Your Power

“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… we are here to become more and more ourselves.” ― James Hollis, What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“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. . . . Weir

That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult —if you don’t lose it.

When I first became a coach I realized I didn’t exactly love everything about coaching. For example, I’m not one to sit back, listen and nod while someone car crashes their life, or restrain enthusiasm when it’s clear you’ve hit on something fabulous. For months I was so stressed about this: every session I felt like I had to pretend to be someone