How To Be Different In A Very Diverse World

August 19, 2012 4 Comments


Once I had a friend try to be different by creating a six sentence blog… he wasn’t really being different, he was simply copying and changing a number.

This is how most of us attempt to be different or original most of the time.

The other common starting point for “being different” is rebellion and a refusal to conform. This may get you attention if you are 65 and your rebellion is out of character with your demographic BUT will this attention be good?

I guess that’s my point, if your soul aim is to get attention, then the type of attention you get online or anywhere else needs to be weighed and measured.

Attention isn’t a bad thing and standing out from the crowd is a necessary evil for anyone who wants to initiate change BUT once you have my attention you must have the skills to keep it.

And that is the real trick behind being a change maker, having the authenticity, stamina and the relational know how to take “attention”  and build long lasting loyalty.

 

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  • Phil Rood

    I tend to think that being different and unique are overrated. If that’s what you and your project are, and it’s good, than I think that’s great, but being different for the sake of being different and making that your first priority is not necessarily going to make your project good. There’s a world of different between being different and being good. Different as a top priority is often gimmicky. Think of 3D and IMAX movies. When that was new technology, we got a ton of horrible movies that made a ton of money because of the gimmick, not because they were telling a good story.

    You, as a person, are unique. Following that logic, if you make something that is true to you, it will be unique also. It may follow something similar to what came before it, but the devil’s in the details, and they will be unique. Is Harry Potter a unique, or different concept? No, not really. It’s a Hero’s Journey story. It’s been told a thousand times since the beginning to time. What’s unique and different is the characters(not the archetypes, the characters) the situations they found themselves in, the world JK Rowling built for them, and how they related to each other. That, not the concept of Harry being the chosen one, is what made that series unique and different, and drew in a worldwide audience.

    • http://sevensentences.com/ Geoff Talbot

      I often think that it is not about been original but about being unique… The only way one can do this is by simply being themselves… which although simple is a very difficult thing to do!

  • http://thejmolina.com/ J.Molina

    We live in a system that tells us its ok to be who ever we want to be, but fail to help us to discover who we really are. Lack of identity causes people to adopt other images. I dont want “Be Like Mike,” I want to be me.

    • http://sevensentences.com/ Geoff Talbot

      good!