Don't worry about being unique, be honest

I find it amazing you can become something just by teaching your brain to believe it enough, that's just insane.

Yet if you get into a habit of visualising yourself doing something in a certain way, it's more likely to happen.

Just spend a few minutes every morning, visualising being or doing what you want, then the body will catch up with the mind.

You're a not a fixed point, you're fluid. The limits you set on yourself are really habits.

This is not the same as pretending to be something you're not, though, that's not good. You can't fake experience or confidence.

Nor should you. 

I tried that in my twenties and, well, let's say it wasn't very successful. 

No let's be honest, I was a dick. 

You might be a massive soup of potential, but there is still a you and if you're like me, you're not a visionary, you're not particularly original or talented.

It doesn't matter though, because  being you is your superpower, as long as your willing to explore who 'you really is' and share that honestly. 

You're genes are only slightly different to everyone else, but the experiences that have shaped you are. What motivates you, moves you, makes your angry, this is unique to you.

Your outlook, your upbringing, your loves, your passions, the things that broke your heart, that made you cry, the things that made you feel alive. This who you are at least as much as the anything physical.

(My body has changed shape drastically in the last few years as I've done a little less swimming and lot more cycling. I'm skinnier, smaller shoulders, bigger legs. My DNA has't changed, the experiences I've put my body through have)

All this gets melted into a flowing lava of you, ready to flow out into whatever you're willing really pour yourself into. 

So the more you HONESTLY put yourself into the work, rather than setting out to do something unique, the more chance you have of doing something that will be original anyway.

Because no one else has lived your life. No one feels what you feel. 

The more you put of this into you work, the more it will resonate, because others will feel it too. 

Because people like people, they buy humanity.  

Being human in a pre-programmed world is your weapon.

Being honestly you is your superpower. 

 

Comments

[John]

Skinnier?

[John]

Distinctiveness > differentiation Russell.

[northern]

In a normal summer John I end up looking emaciated

Kind of about being distinctive, but its easy to fall into the trap of being wacky rather than make people feel something and the easiest way to connect is to be recognisably human

[John]

Emaciated due to exercise (specifically cycling)?

[Northern]

Yep, cycling carves you in harsh ways