If I were to follow your rules, then I’d turn out just like you. I’d make the same mistakes and achieve the same accomplishments. What fun is that? Where’s the progress in that? Is that what you call success?
I am not here for your enjoyment. I am not in it to fit in, I’m in it to win it. I’m grateful to have the awareness that not all great accomplishments are easy or fun or cool or safe. I don’t want to be you. I don’t want to be anything like you. By default, I am nothing like you since birth. So why should I put all my unique energies into doing what you want? Do you think that’s what Michael Jordan did? Do you think Abraham Lincoln wanted to be liked? What would be our world today if Steve Jobs wasn’t an asshole?
To be great, you have to be YOU. That’s the only rule. Be yourself, go forth with your passion because by definition you are nothing like anyone or anything else that’s ever walked on this awesome planet. You are 100% unique.
Sacrifice. Patience. Ambition. Success. Whatever it Takes!
