Success = Thinking Differentely
When I was young my mother kept telling me I need to fit in. I needed to adjust to how the other kids are. Basically she was telling me – “be normal”.
I never liked that concept. But as a young person popularity is everything, and you tend to do anything that would make people like you and therefore you adjust. So very quickly I learned that in order to be liked and popular I better do things, which most people think are “normal”. I shouldn’t do things too outrageous, because then they might look at me as weird and no one wants to be labeled as weird.
The good thing about crossing the age of 50 is that you care less about what people might think about you and you start-doing things your own way. It feels so much better and much more free.
What I found interesting was that the more I do things out of the ordinary, the more I do things differently, the more success I have. Isn’t that funny???
As a young person we want popularity because we think that popularity would bring us into success.
It makes sense. The more people would like you the more success you’d have.
Especially in business, this was just pure common sense – the more people like you, your product, your service – the more success you’ll have.
As the years went by I realized that this common sense is not always right. It might be common sense, but I learned that the majority of people (the common people) are… BROKE, which means not so successful…
The more I look around I find that whether in business or in personal life the so-called common sense doesn’t always lead to success.
I found out that thinking and doing things differently would bring you to success faster.
You see most people would walk on the path of the common sense. The majority of people would do things according to what they call “normal”, which means – that road, that path would be over crowded. The competition there would be much tougher and much more fierce.
However, if you take the road that most people don’t take you’ll have much more chance in reaching success and in an easier way.
When you look at successful people you’d realize that most of them have done it in a counter-intuitive way. Which means that they did things in a different way than most people did.
It means that they were willing to stand up and be different and do things against what seemed to be the obvious and intuitive way of doing things.
This is what made them remark-able. That’s the reason people talked about them or their products and services. Isn’t that what you want for your own business?
It’s not easy to do things differently, to take then risk that you might be ridiculed.
But on the other hand the opportunity on that path is HUGE.
It’s not easy to develop a product that goes against what people perceive as common sense, but once you do, it has so many rewards, and not just financially.
Once you create a product or a service that is special and different, people would talk about it… which makes it remark-able! People can remark about it and would remember it.
And once you have a remarkable product you can call it a success.
What I learned in life is that, in life and in business, success is daring to be different and go against the common sense.
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