Dare to be Different
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be a part of unanimity.
-Christopher Morley
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading.”
Simply read and you have accomplished something. It is sad but true. Few people read anymore. Simply read. Try a book.
“Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.”
You’re weird. You’re a scientist. It should be easy to think something no one else in thinking. Right?
The problem is that your peers (your competition for jobs) are scientists too. You may be weird. You may think weird things. But so do they. (Well, the interesting ones do.) So you will have to think about something new; something different from what they are thinking.
“Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.”
Do this and you risk everything. You risk being a fool. You risk being isolated. You risk the very person you were when you woke up this morning. It may be the best decision you ever make.
“It is bad for the mind to continually be a part of unanimity.”
Dare to be different.
