Don’t try to figure out what behavior or opinion will make you popular with others. It is disrespectful to who you really are. It is selling out for the affections of others — as if you needed their approval. Be what you are. Be indifferent to the judgments of others, not with thoughtlessness, but with the firm knowledge that you are intelligent and good.
Forget about what you have been before. Forget what you’ve said before. Be what you are now, , even if it seems to contradict what you or others have pigeonholed you to be. Be free.
Be exactly what you are right now and what will happen? Your truth will scare some people, and they will actively try to make you stop being true to yourself.
The world wants you to conform. Others will think they know what you should be and how you should act and what you should think. And they will apply pressure to you to make you conform to it. But if you conform, you lose your originality and that is losing you.
The people who know you will resist your honesty. They feel more comfortable with what is familiar.
If you want to be all you can be, you must give up the game and be your honest self. Rely on yourself and you become one of those who determine the future of the world.
Not you? Why not you? Remember – “My dear fellow, who will let you?””That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
~ The John Galt Book Project
