I think there is a desire inside all of us to be accepted. We try to look, talk and think like everyone else. What happens? We become like everyone else. We hide who we are inside, in order to fit in with the herd. We lose what makes us great. Our personality, ambitions and style. We give up our originality so that we can become a carbon copy of what “we are supposed to be” in everyone else’s eyes. Frankly, we do this because we fear others will think we’re nuts. We worry that others will call us crazy.
Me, I refuse to be like everyone else. So go ahead and call me crazy.
In my opinion, if you are afraid of what others will think than you are the crazy one. No one that ever accomplished anything great or worth mentioning, cared what others would think of them. They didn’t wait for society to approve of their cause. They went against the grain. They stood up when no one else would. They risked looking foolish in order to follow their passion. If you look at what society wants you to be, you will never get very far. You have to step outside the box and follow your heart.
Why lose what makes you special? Why give up the things that make you great?
I can tell you why people don’t accomplish great things. It’s because they fear what others will think. That fear rules them and won’t allow them to step up and follow their heart. Too many people look just alike. Societies goal is to make us less crazy and conform us into their little ball. It doesn’t like it when you go outside the lines.
When I look back at my life, those crazy moments when I stood up for what I believed were the great ones. I don’t regret them even If I failed at what I was trying to accomplish.
If you are out there being called crazy, you just might be on the right track.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.
I’d rather be disliked for who I am than liked for I am not. – Mark Batterson.
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Today I watched the death of a professional.
I used to work for a company as an assembly technician that built filters. In the process, there was one step, that involved hand drilling these pieces of metal. Hand drilling, not an easy quick task. Imagine screwing in a screw with no drill into metal for 8 hours straight. To go through one of these things it took about 2-3 minutes a piece. So what did I do? I found a way to use a drill to replace hand drilling. Now, it took about 5 seconds per piece with much more precision than I could by hand. I could do what I did in a days work before, now in the matter of a few hours. I increased production and got more done on the bottom line. That’s streamlining. Interestingly enough, the manager stopped me from using the drill. They said that wasn’t the way they were instructed to do it. So you want me to hand drill these and take 24 times the amount of time it took me to do one with a drill? Seriously? There was no real technical answer he could give me as to why I should hand drill these. He said: “that is just how it had always been done.” It made no sense. I went back to work and got hand drilling. I couldn’t understand why this mattered. I left the company and found out that a few months later they employed drills to do the work. Imagine the dollars that had been wasted. Months of hand drilling that could have been replaced with drills. Had this company not looked at its processes, it might still be wasting money paying extra workers to hand drill these filters. 
Here is a cool resource I found the other day: 
A friend of mine sent me this picture. This bathroom is so interesting, it’s hard not to talk about it. Thats how your business needs to be. What can you do to make your business so exciting, people can’t help but talk about it? 
