3. be unconventional
Great opportunity lies in the places where everyone thinks you’re wrong, but you’re not.
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs."
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Be concerned with your current trajectory, not your current results.
💥 Atomic Habits
leaving behind the burdens of one’s preconceived opinions and conclusions—had in itself a liberating power.
Shannon Lee • Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Crazy ideas? Crazy people.
via How People Think
People who think about the world in unique ways you like also think about the world in unique ways you won’t like.
Kanye West once put it:
If you want these crazy ideas and these crazy stages, this crazy music, and this crazy way of thinking, there’s a chance it might come from a crazy person.
First, let’s talk a little human psychology. In basic terms, people’s emotions have two levels: the “presenting” behavior is the part above the surface you can see and hear; beneath, the “underlying” feeling is what motivates the behavior. Imagine a grandfather who’s grumbly at a family holiday dinner: the presenting behavior is that he’s cranky,
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