It took until I was 37, yes, 37 to realise one thing.

I was a misfit.

Before then, I'd always felt kind of out of step with the world.

As a teenager, I lost both my parents at a time when I didn't know any other orphans.

My first marriage broke down as friends were happily celebrating anniversaries,

and then I fell in love with a woman.

All the while, I was working in the corporate environment,

competing with alpha men to get to the top of the system.

And when I realised I'd never really truly fit into this, that it really just didn't work with me deeply inside.

I left and I decided to start my own business.

All of this taught me one thing. My feeling of being out of step wasn't the

weakness that I thought it was for years. It was in fact my superpower. Misfits understand this

in their bones and some are born knowing this but others are reshaped by experience.

What misfits all share, however, is the instinctive knowledge that the system that we live in today is broken.

And the old ways are just no longer fit for purpose.

The pursuit of profit, the faster, the quicker the bigger, the pursuit of how much stuff that we can all have that says something about where I am in society, we all know has reduced us, confined us, is killing our planet, is affecting humanity.

We are at a tipping point. The world we live in now was unimaginable even a few years ago.

But we can either run scared or we can use this rare moment of incredible flux

to recreate and embrace a new way of being.

The misfits, the beautiful misfits, will guide us in the right direction.

This is their time.

This is your time.

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