1. Be Practical: If there’s any commonly given piece of advice that completely SUCKS it is the notion that you should be practical. Highly successful people are very rarely practical. They realize early on in life the lesson of passion vs. practicality. Many of the most successful people in the world will tell you that if you do what you love the money will follow. Even if them money doesn’t follow, you will much likely be a thousand times happier doing what you love. I’ve known many people who have chosen careers for money, and I don’t know most of them very well anymore.
2. Be Realistic: Given our limitless power of imagination, be realistic is another piece of advice that SUCKS. Let’s look at being realistic in a bit more detail. When you are following this advice, you are essentially embracing the idea of a limiting belief and the limitations of your current reality. If 10 years ago, somebody had told many professional bloggers they would be making their living writing online, and even have book deals, that would have not been realistic. If somebody had told the guys a Google, be realistic, there lives would have turned out very differently. Most of the world you see today was at some point in time not realistic. If people had followed that advice, then our progress as a society would have slowed dramatically. However, somewhere in the transition from childhood to adulthood we stop using our imagination so vividly. Yet, that is the very purpose of having an imagination.
3. Try to fit in: It’s amazing how much time we give to gaining the approval of others: parents, society, peers,etc. But the thing that makes you interesting is that you don’t fit in. When you start to embrace your imperfections, something almost magical happens. People start to see who you really are and are drawn to you. Why is that? Because you are finally real. I may have said this before, but most people are so scared about what others think about them. that you never find out who they really are.
Tags: imagination, practicality, subjective reality
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Ah, it’s very important to look hard at advice. I would add to this list the type of ideas that tell us to be positive, to be optimistic, that good thoughts attract to the good and so on. Of course, there is nothing wrong with any of this. It’s just that in my experience, I have never known anyone who can successfully or sustainably cover up negativity with positive thinking. What works is to face up to and release negativity, and we find that positivity was always there, waiting for us.
Good reminders. Thanks.
Yes, I’ve heard these at certain stage of my life.
Another common one is, “Give it some time”!
I live my life by NOT following those three rules. But its tough! Most of the world don’t understand us!