I had a teacher once tell me: “Why can’t you just be normal and do the assignment the way it says to do it? You aren’t going to finish in time.” I never was much of your typical follow the directions student during my schooling. I often wanted to do something different. I would try and take an assignment that interested me and make it my own. Create a new experience and learn something that I cared about learning. Sometimes they came out incredible, and others were colossal failures. I may not have finished some projects exactly the way they were supposed to be done all the time and I may have had some belly flops, but the point was that I learned something out of it that was worth it. Every time I went my own way I created a new experience it has influenced me in some fashion. Wouldn’t it be better to do something that interested you that you could better yourself from? Wouldn’t that be better than just do something to pass the given requirements?

The purpose of education is to stimulate the creativity and the passions of the student body. I think we have gotten away from that. It’s not to herd and mold people into what society thinks is right. It’s to give them the knowledge so they can make their own path and discover the own abilities.

Why is it that in school they teach us to be normal? To punish us for not coloring within the lines? I think this type of thought is wrong in the development of our future leaders. I don’t think the goal of life is to “be normal.” When did being mediocre ever accomplish anything? When was anything great ever been created by following the rules? Every single one of our great leaders weren’t normal by any means. They were all abnormal. All of our innovations, buildings, ideas, inventions and creations were built out of creativity and from folks who didn’t want to be normal. Can you imagine Trump or Edison being taught to “be normal?” I don’t think we should teach our kids to be such lemmings.

How did the current education system really work out for you? Did you become exactly what you dreamed about being right out of the gate? Did you follow your passions? Or did you sacrifice your dreams and settle for mediocrity? I ask you: what is normal anyway and why is that the goal we should all be striving for? Getting up every single day, heading out to a job you hate, working for people you hate that never appreciate your efforts? It that normal? Is this what we should strive for? Or was it when you went against the norm and stepped out that you found your passion?

I get up every single day excited about what I do. I absolutely love my work. Most of the entrepreneurs I know are the exact same way. I work with the most amazing achievers out there. Some nights I can’t sleep because my mind is racing with new ideas for the next day. Had I followed the norm, I wouldn’t have found my passion.

We have been orientated all of our lives. I think it’s time for a disorientation.

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