Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org, and today I want to have a discussion about this topic of being iconic classic and how being the exact opposite of what everyone else is being or what everyone else is doing

can actually lead to some amazing results. So this is an interesting idea

because there's a balance to be had between being conformist and then being rebellious or iconicastic and challenging conventions just for the sake of challenging them.

So when I was a kid through middle school and high school I used to be

I had a rebellious streak and really kind of an iconicastic streak. I would call myself a proud

iconiclast. But I'll give you just a quick example of how this

played out. So in middle school I used to remember I would walk up to people to like friends

in school and I would ask them this question.

I would tell them if someone gave you a million dollars right now to quit school forever

and you could never come back you'd have to quit where you are right now. quit school

and you would have to quit where you are right now and this was like eighth grade.

So if you quit school at eighth grade and you were never allowed to come back but you had a million dollars,

would you take that deal?

And of course most of the kids, they hated school anyways,

they would probably quit it for $100,

but of course for a million dollars they all said yes.

And being the kind of smart ass that I was, I would always, I would insist and I would argue with them and I would say,

no, I would never take that deal because the education is so much more important a lot more than a million dollars.

So in the end, that's a poor deal to take because you could never come back and you could never get proper education.

And so, yeah, I was probably a little bit smarter than most kids in terms of how I was thinking long term and all that kind of stuff.

But really I was coming up this question from a place of ego,

so you know I wanted to prove that I was a smart ass and that I was different than everyone else.

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