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Yesterday, I forgot to add one important point.
It’s not really the happy people that are so annoying, it’s actually the ones that are REALLY happy, all the time!
You know the ones. They seem to have their act together and they get all the breaks, and don’t have near the worry and stress that we have.
Am I right? Are ya with me?
They are. There’s no question about it.
You can picture someone in your mind right now, can’t you? They are so annoying.
What boggles my mind though, is, “Why?”
If you want to do great work, work that matters and makes a positive difference, work that multiplies and spreads, you are going to have to choose.
Do you ever think like this?
Do you want to make a difference, but find it challenging to get started? Have you gotten started, but find the path difficult?
This is why you are going to have to choose.
This is a Seth Godin blog post entitled, Arrogant. Rather than provide a link to it, it’s been copied and pasted, for your convenience. As you read it, try to find “your fear” in Seth’s post? Take it away Seth:
ARROGANT
“This is a fear and a paradox of doing work that’s important.
A fear because so many of us are raised to avoid appearing arrogant. Being called arrogant is a terrible slur, it means that you’re not only a failure, but a poser as well.
It’s a paradox, though, because the confidence and attitude that goes with bringing a new idea into the world (“hey, listen to this,”) is a hair’s breadth away, or at least sometimes it feels that way, from being arrogant.
And so we keep our head down. Better, they say, to be invisible and non-contributing than risk being arrogant.
That feels like a selfish, cowardly cop out to me. Better, I think, to make a difference and run the risk of failing sometimes, of being made fun of, and yes, appearing arrogant. It’s far better than the alternative.”
Some people approach things from an entirely different angle than the status quo. A great many of our breakthroughs, whether in technology, medicine, education or manufacturing come from the fringes – people who just find some kind of crazy courage to face ridicule and still push on. Even comedians: