The World Caters to Average. Dare to be Extraordinary.🦸‍♂️

Published: Sat, 10/15/22

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

– Virginia C. Andrews

“If you want to live an exceptional and extraordinary life, you have to give up many of the things that are part of a normal one.”

-Srinivas Rao

In my writing, Conspiracy Theories are a great vehicle to blur the lines between the world within the pages and the real world we experience daily. For me, I prefer these ideas to remain in the realm of my books.

Forget Normal I'm Going to Be Extraordinary

So when someone says that nefarious forces within the world are actively trying to make you fail or any such theory of an Illuminati cabal pulling the strings on our lives, I have to disagree on principle. I’ve already got enough weird theories in my books to want to draw them into my waking world.
What I do believe is the world doesn’t care if you succeed. The world would rather you play your part as a cog in the bigger wheel.

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I used to wonder why it felt like being a go-getter and striving for more was treated as a disadvantage. Then I realised that society doesn’t cater to extraordinary people. You are on your own.
Being extraordinary is doable No matter what the majority believe. An extraordinary life requires you to leave the comfort and safety of the majority. I’ve come to believe that you can do great things by taking a step beyond the average.

Just a step beyond Mediocrity and the philosophy of just getting by, settling for less, and living smaller than you could be living.

Just a step.

All around you are people who work hard at the wrong things, who are lazy, unambitious, close-minded, consumers, hoping for a better life but doing nothing about it.

As I continue on my writing journey, I appreciate the simplicity of taking that extra step. There is a boundary between average and extraordinary. Your job is to find it and step into it.

So you don’t need to be the best in the world; you don’t need to be super talented or brilliant to stay a step above the competition and reap the massive rewards that come from being better than average. You need skills that the marketplace values — things people will pay you for — and always be a learner. Invest in yourself. Because through investment in yourself, you not only know that you need to take the extra step but what step to take.

You will feel alone sometimes as you take this journey because, as always with meaningful endeavours, only a few will bother to embark on it, but the rewards at the top of the mountain and the rewards of the journey make it all worth it.

I came across a simple but effective means of never being average in a short article by writer Todd Brison that perfectly sums up the ideas we’ve been discussing.