How to get dressed with Aaron Levine
It’s helpful to view currents in the culture without feeling obligated to follow the direction of their flow. Instead, notice them in the same connected, detached way you might notice a warm wind. Let yourself move within it, yet not be of it.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
And here's the beautiful part: your people are out there. Those who resonate with your unique frequency, your particular brand of weird – they're hiding too, waiting for someone to show them it's safe to be different.
Maybe you're the one who will carve this path forward. Maybe by embracing your uniqueness, you'll give others permission to do the sa... See more
Maybe you're the one who will carve this path forward. Maybe by embracing your uniqueness, you'll give others permission to do the sa... See more
Carolina Wilke • 072:The Business of Being Different: Why Your Weird is Your Power
Are Weirdos the Key to Everything?
m.youtube.com“Here’s what I mean by building your own little subculture,” Morrie said. “I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—de
... See moreMitch Albom • Tuesdays With Morrie
social interaction in any medium is always a balance between self-expression and the accommodation of others, which means that in the analog world it is a constant struggle to strike a balance between being myself and annoying everyone around me at some point or another. The magic of the Internet, though, is that you can be whatever you want to be
Stratechery • Social Networking 2.0
When you take a job take a long look at the people you’re going to be working with—because the odds are you’re going to become like them; they are not going to become like you. You can’t change them. If it doesn’t fit who you are, it’s not going to work.