Tag: Conformity

If you could only pick from two available vendors

2015 American Idol final four
Last night watching American Idol top four elimination.

 

If you could only pick from two available vendors, which would you pick?

  1. The one promising to help you get your job done?
  2. The one promising to help you change your world?

No brainer?

Or does the fear of being remarkable default you to conformity?

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They aren’t clueless, although prevailing evidence suggests otherwise

Spring Grove, PA road signs

 

(photo: Stop. Conforming. To. The. Way. We. Have. Always. Done. It. Please.)

Her boss wants her to write a bunch of examples showcasing how great her performance was for the past year.

She really doesn’t want to do it because:

  • It will not influence her pay
  • No one will ever read it after the annual work review is completed
  • Shouldn’t her boss already know how amazing she is?

A once a year performance appraisal is perhaps one of the biggest crocks in the western hemisphere.

When a teen violates a curfew, the parent doesn’t wait until the end of the year to go over it.

Parents are very busy people, just like bosses.

Figure it out people. Figure it out.

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The fine line between being lifted up and being a target

We met in 2009 at the National Speaker’s Association (NSA) Winter conference held at Walt Disney World and there was something special about Omekongo that you could simply feel in his presence.

Now it’s becoming clearer. This was a High School commencement speech he delivered the year before we met.

 

 

There’s a fine line between confidence and humility for an aspiring entrepreneur hoping to put a dent in the Universe.

Never succumb to the constant temptation to conform.

This is exactly what the herd is trying to do, not let you get ahead to the greener pasture.

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We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money

Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final
Rion Paige is one of two acts I predict will be in the X-Factor final

 

We’ve already decided that the sure thing is where we’ll bet our time and money.

Every meeting is about avoiding coming anywhere near the sentence, “this might not work,” and instead giving ammunition to the groupthink belief that this must work. – Godin

If we are lucky enough to have worked insanely hard enough, we eventually become blessed with revelations and insights that those who never leave shore will never, ever understand.

And we must learn (and we do) to be okay with this.

But there’s one more thing, a benefit that feeds upon itself. It stiffens an already courageous, audacious spine.

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