Different in school, you are an outsider; different as an adult you are often successful. entrepreneurs are nonconformists.
Entrepreneurs Are Nonconformists
“In high school, popularity is more important than anywhere else, but popularity is not a measure of likability.
Popularity is composed of three elements: visibility, recognizability and influence.
The people in school who have those three qualities are often that way because they conform to a standard. Meanwhile, the kids who won’t or can’t conform are the ones who are left out. Nonconformity is a wonderful trait, and it’s going to be valued in adulthood.
If you’re different in school, that makes you an outsider. If you’re different as an adult, that makes you interesting, fun and often successful.”
Alexandra Robbins interviewed in Salon
Food for thought as budding entrepreneurs aspire to social network celebrity in our “please retweet this” world. Entrepreneurs are nonconformists. You cannot follow the herd to get above average results. Larry Ellison, reflecting in 2001 on his own experience, observed: “when you go out into the real world, it’s when you find errors in conventional wisdom–when everyone says A is true, and A is not true–that you gain your competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.”
“Do something different or expect the same results.”
Susannah Breslin
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