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Fourteen secrets to finding your uniqueness so you stand out in your own way
Most online advice is training you to be a soulless automaton.
We follow the rules and frameworks that work for others and wonder why they don’t work for us. This makes us miserable.
Here are 14 things you can do to win by exploring and developing your unique talents and strengths:
Travel by yourself to ‘weird’ places even if you want to run back home to mummy.
I spent my entire 20s and 30s doing this.
Start in your own neighbourhood. You will pick up memorable experiences.
You are also more likely to meet new people, but you’ll learn about what you’re capable of more than anything else.
Make a commitment to creating something ‘ridiculous.’
Few things of magnificence were ever accomplished without a bold promise.
No matter how seemingly far out this first appears, I implore you to go there.
Stop settling for scraps. You’re not a freaking badger.
Set out to create something no one would even consider.
You may find the air is sharper up here because it’s less crowded, and you’re on a genuine high.
Write an article or book you’re scared to write.
Writing is one thing, but writing, finishing and sharing a book that requires you to be real as fuck, as well as vulnerable, is another thing entirely.
Books that take courage to write will inevitably do better too.
Be less available to bullshit that drains your energy.
Now you’re free to rise up like a steely-eyed warrior on a mission to greatness.
Deepen your expertise in a hybrid combination of two or more things.
Everything’s been done, but no one has taken two or three things, put them together and added your unique flavour to it.
