“Everything popular is wrong.” — Oscar Wilde

“To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.” — Dogen

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. The wise warrior avoids the battle.” — Sun Tzu ¹

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” — Virginia Woolf

“If you want to be successful in life, simply watch what most people would do in a given situation, and then do the total opposite—nine times out of ten, you’ll receive greater rewards.” — Earl Nightingale

“The world wants you to be typical – in a thousand ways, it pulls at you. Don’t let it happen. You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it.” — Jeff Bezos

“Don’t try to emulate. It’s a fool’s errand. Instead, each person is uniquely qualified at something. They have some specific knowledge, capability, and desire nobody else in the world does, purely from the combinatorics of human DNA and development.” — Naval Ravikant

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” — Coco Channel

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ― Dr. Seuss

“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” — Bob Dylan

“No one will ever be as good at being you than you are. No one can compete with you on being you.” — Naval Ravikant ²

”The more neatly you fit into society, the less free you actually are.” — Naval Ravikant

“Every human is non-fungible at the DNA level. It’s society, shame and conditioning that chips away at individuality.” — George Mack

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” ― Bruce Lee

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland

“If stars needed the sky’s permission to shine, the universe would be a very dark place.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes

The Fight Against Normalcy

“Normal is the average of deviance.” — Rita Mae Brown

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2

“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.” — Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Extreme people get extreme results.” — Sam Altman

• Maintaining your uniqueness in a world that pulls you to blend in, is the only way to realize your full potential and live a fulfilled, texture-rich existence.
• It comes with a risk, but the rewards are abundant. It may come with a steep cost in the short-term, but the long-term rewards are worth it.

Always do your best as possible

“Be weird. Your strangeness is your magic.” — Parker Lewis

The things that make you weird are often the things that make you memorable. Lean into your Pattern Interrupts.

Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives. Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected. Normalize being weird. Weirdness is what sets us apart, makes us unique. Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness.

1. If you pay for the bill at everyone in the table — the short-term reaction is shock and confusion. In the long term, it’s everyone’s favorite memory of you.
2. If you travel across the world for a friend’s birthday, the friend’s initial reaction is: “You don’t have to do that” — but it’s the story they tell at your funeral.
3. If you’re 100% honest with your feedback on people’s business ideas, the short-term reaction is anger. In the long term, you become one of the few people they trust.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Be true to yourself.

Sometimes becoming who you are is actually about unbecoming who you aren’t.

• Uncondition/Undo yourself

The world doesn’t need one more template. It needs one more rebel.

Attract > Chase

“If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they’ll fly away. But if you spend your time making/mending a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come.” — Mario Quintana ³

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.” — Mark Nepo

找到只有你能做得好的一件事，你就會事半功倍，最後你將成為那件事的世界第一，並且熱愛生命

What you are good at is different from what you are genetically encoded for.

Find a thing that’s so you, that doing it is just a natural extension of you being yourself.

Your best performances will come when you are working in a way that is a full expression of you. The work becomes a natural display of your personality. This is when you not only get better results, but also love the activity — because in doing the craft, you feel alive.

Specific Knowledge

如果無法為自己規劃願景，只會一昧地跟隨他人的夢想、隨之起舞，到最後，二流永遠只能是二流，追隨者也終究無法超越跟隨的腳步。

天生我材必有用

「無用之用，方為大用。」— 莊子

人注定要成功。每個人都很獨特，天生就具備與眾不同的能力與特質。成功來自於 發現真正的自己，開發自己尚未開發的潛能。而發揮潛能，靠得不是忍受每天的磨練，而是把每天的磨練轉變成日常快樂的泉源（「刻意玩樂 Deliberate Play」）。

Be primarily internally driven

Comparison is the thief of joy

The Spotlight Effect

Stanford Prison Experiment