 Weird people are way more likely to be successful than anyone else hands down and you know It's kind of funny because when I was a kid. I was a weird kid Actually, I'm still weird what am I talking about like I got an acupuncture doll that looks at me as I sleep But in all honesty, I was weird. I'm still weird like as a kid I literally read books on witchcraft and wicca and paganism, you know one year at Christmas I had my grandpa order me this gift I really wanted on like from like a crystal site But it was like a pagan neo pagan website my god my family and extended family could not stop talking about it Like this little 16 year old boy studying witchcraft, and you know, it's funny though as a kid I used to be super embarrassed by this stuff But later I realized that being weird is the secret to success Hey guys, I'm Alex Hine author of the book master of the day now The first thing about being weird is that weird people don't care what anyone else thinks, you know It's funny when they do inventories on some of the most successful people in the world and they try to study this one trait But it's the trait where you're not afraid of hurting someone else's feelings if it means you're living your truth It's not as long as you're not a pedophile or psychopath or something But basically it means that you will go after what you believe to be true Regardless of what mommy or daddy thinks your sister your brother your girlfriend your boyfriend Society whoever and weird people. I mean listen as a kid. I was so weird that I was ostracized So I didn't have a lot of friends and when I was young I It bothered me not having a lot of friends Okay, but as I got to be older and I didn't need a lot of people Because I was used to being alone basically when I got older like older than 25 And I was in the real world and a lot of that weird stuff goes away or people judge you less It was funny because you know as a kid it really bothered me But as an adult you realize how much of society gets you to do crap You hate because of peer pressure and the fear of missing out now It's funny though because when you don't fit in already and you don't have a lot of friends What's the one thing that will not work on you peer pressure? Right because if you haven't fit in before and the worst-case scenario if you say no to everybody is you don't fit in then You don't really care and you do whatever you like and which means you're always gonna be happy You're always gonna have fun you look at most of the icons of history the Steve Jobs the Elon Musk's the Nikola Tesla the Albert Einstein's they just did what they wanted and they didn't care about Convention and fitting in and in fact I would argue most of the innovators of human history Don't care about fitting in or doing what's right. They do whatever their own truth is the second trade I see a lot is that weird people are content being themselves The irony is that when you accept yourself for whatever you are or whatever weird stuff You're into whether that's troll dolls or running around the streets in a speedo in the middle of winter Whatever you define as weird and you the irony is that when you like yourself Everyone else likes you too. You know, it's so funny. It's so interesting the parallels from childhood to adulthood as a kid Fitting in playing it safe being the jock or being the pretty girl or being the good student when you're conventional That's how you make friends Ironically, that's what attracts people to you when you're young, but the funny thing is as an adult It's the exact opposite. It's the person that's the trailblazer the leader that does whatever the hell they want And they don't care if they eat alone or they go on this expedition to Antarctica Those are the cool people. It's really really really weird because the kids were very fragile We don't have the self-esteem to think you know what I think what I'm doing is so badass That I don't really care if you like it or not or agree with it So as kids, we just play it safe, right? We dress like everyone else. We act like everyone else We don't want to be too weird the goth kids and the little girls into Wicca witchcraft. They're the weirdos, right? As an adult when you're doing your thing and it's different You get to be an adult and everyone is so vanilla. It's so whitewashed. You get the good job You get the picket fence. You get to be just like what everyone else is You wear the same suit. You wear the same clothes. You go to the same desk. You do the same role every day You're just vanilla like everybody else. So when you're weird and you're just being yourself You're a rocky road in the world of vanilla. The third thing is that extremely weird people think differently and thus Innovate who the hell would be like, you know what I'm gonna send rockets to Mars and I'm gonna self-fund it Every smart person from NASA to Neil deGrasse Tyson has said no one will ever self-fund these expeditions to Mars And yet Elon Musk just punched them all in the face So the thing is when you don't care about convention, you don't care about fitting in you don't care about Being liked or being popular you care about pursuing whatever excites you the most That is what leads to innovation, right? Because if you're afraid did not be if you're too afraid to be yourself Too afraid to think differently too afraid to try to innovate on what you know How it's always been done to do more or differently than how it's always been done if you're too afraid You're not going to try any of that you look at any innovator in history from technology The people who started sending wireless messages through the air with the telephone even look at Wi-Fi the people the early physicians that Proposed germ theory these people were ridiculed and ousted from the medical profession Everyone that has been an innovator has been ousted is called a quack is is perceived as crazy And the irony is the faster you get comfortable with being crazy The faster you are gonna win at life and ironically those same people that say you're crazy 20 years later Guess who's knocking on your front door asking for your advice. It's always those same people Now the last trade of white weird people will change the world is that they are content being themselves It's almost like the exact opposite of what people joke about in LA where everyone is trying so hard to fit in So hard to be popular so hard to be famous for nothing Not because you're amazing at what you do as a physician Not because you're an amazing parachute jumper or skydiver not because you've done something amazing By being famous for nothing Like for adding zero value to your own life and to the world When you're weird and you're just content being yourself You don't have the anxieties and neuroses of a person that tries so hard to fit in It's like the person that shows up and they're the least successful person in the room and they're always like hey, dude Here's my business card. Here's my business card and they're trying to prove so hard what they've done Every little achievement they have to share Every little cool thing they have to volunteer and the trying so hard is so painful to endure It's such a painful conversation to have you just want to get away from it when you're yourself You're on the path you love you don't care about fitting in you don't have that anxiety Because you don't care Bill Gates or a homeless man responds to your dreams positively or negatively you don't care if your dream person responds to them However, wherever on the spectrum you don't have that neurotic personality We are so fragile and offended and special snowflake because it's just you and you've accepted you And I think the most important thing is if you accept you if there's that internal calm That is a palpable sensation people will feel and that is something that not too many people have that kind of inner calm of Knowing themselves and knowing that they are on the path that they want to be on so before you go I want you to comment there below and you let me know what makes you weird What's up weirdos? 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