Jose K. Masawanie, Jun.
It’s okay to be “you”. You don’t have to be like someone else to be successful. You don’t have to become the next Steve Jobs, William Shakespeare, Picasso or Mozart. Just be the best version of you. In your best form even those people you look up to, would look up to you.
Nothing wrong with getting inspiration from what others have accomplished. We actually need that from time to time. But don’t be inspired to be them, be inspired to be the best version of you. You are unique, we all are. We are about 7 billion people on the face of the earth and no two finger prints are alike. That shows that you cannot be like anyone else. If you try to become like someone else you may succeed at becoming the most impressive copy-cat; but that’s what you will be, a copy-cat. Be original.
You don’t have to be complicated to be creative
By being original I am not saying you should launch a mind rocket to the moon to get some outta-space idea,no. You don’t have to be complicated to be creative. Most of the time creative ideas lie in plain sight and are trampled upon by most people. Like Albert Einstein said, “Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought“. Within you and around you lies opportunities to trigger and unearth the “you” the world has been waiting for.
You should understand that there is a version of you that the world has been expecting. The world is hurting, and it is waiting for you to help it. The world needs you. The world is waiting for the “you” that will find a cure to the so-called incurable disease, the you that will revolutionize the tech-world, the “you” that will make great discoveries and inventions. If you hide under the shadows of other people’s greatness, the world will be robbed of your greatness.
All great inventions and discoveries are interrelated. We wouldn’t have Facebook, if we didn’t have computer technology and the internet. Your hiding of your talent could be hindering the blossoming of other great talents from. Get out of your cocoon, spread your wings and fly. Don’t be afraid of shinning your shine.
You are in a class of your own, don’t live like a commoner. As John Mason would put it, “You were born an original don’t die a copy“. Become your dream.
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