So, You're a Weirdo

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We're part of a society that constantly pulls us down into the collective no matter how high we want to fly -- only so that we cultivate a more agreeable (or amenable) behavior, mend our "weird" ways, and reduce ourselves to the average of the majority. But as I would ask (and I'm sure you would, too), is it really possible to average out things that we cannot even measure? Do you think we're programmed to be part of a randomly picked "data set"?

That's why in this episode, I get into the importance of being authentically YOU. As the legendary novelist, poet, and literary critic James Joyce once said, "In the particular is contained the universal." YOU matter, and so do your opinions, thoughts, values, and aspirations.

So if you're a "weirdo" or think you don't fit in the lot, then know that it's a gift you and I share in common. Learn to use it to your advantage. Design your world to your taste and be willing to be misunderstood.

A few points to note from the episode:

[14:18] You must actively take a role in being unapologetically you.
[16:37] Be willing to be misunderstood
[19:04] Be true to yourself
[19:12] Know your unique gifts AND your weakness to know where you are and how you could get to where you want to be.

Have a question? Shoot me a text at 1-206-309-5177.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	So you're a weirdo.
0:06.7	Maybe you don't think of yourself as weird, but maybe quirky or the things that you like best about yourself.
0:13.6	You're just not quite sure how it lands or, well, you've got something special that you believe that other people don't see or ever feel misunderstood.
0:26.7	I got to think that you, that every one of us, everyone who's listening right now, has experienced this, right?
0:34.1	Whether or not you identify is a weirdo or your own human or we are all our own human. And yet
0:43.3	we live oftentimes, I would say most often in this state of, of contradiction.
0:56.2	Because we're moving through life,
0:58.7	we're moving through a culture,
1:03.7	through a society whose almost entire job,
1:05.4	it seems like sometimes,
1:08.8	is pushing us to be average.
1:14.7	And this is, there's not some master plan that's trying to make you less than you were meant to be. However, this is part of the price that we pay of living in
1:23.7	a mass culture. It's just easier for culture to manage things that move at the same rate of
1:32.1	speed, things that look like other things, act like other things, right? We are as a part of just
1:39.4	specifically by participating in culture pushed to be average. Now, if you look up the Miriam Webster
1:48.7	dictionary's definition of average, it says a level that is typical of a group, a middle point
1:56.6	between extremes, to have a medial value, to not be out of the ordinary or to be common.
2:07.8	There's a crux that, as I've stood on stages all over the world, as I've come off of those
2:15.3	stages and engage with people, as I've listened to social
2:17.8	channels, as I've learned from this podcast from other guests, my FaceTime with some of the
2:24.7	best highest performers in the world, best humans, and with people from a huge swath of backgrounds,
2:32.3	race, gender, economic, socioe economic, identity, all these different
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