Be willing to be eccentric. You can be like the 95% or you can play in rare air. You can’t do both. And if you are going to play in rare air, then that means you’re going to shift from the belief system, and the Mindsets, and the Heartsets of the majority.
And that’s going to be unpopular, and you’re going to feel confused. One pundit said it so well. He said, “if you are confused, celebrate it. It means you are still free.”
It’s the people who are asleep. The people who are coasting through their lives. That silent majority, the 95% watching too much TV, self-medicating with too much gossip, being busy being busy ,no juice within them. They’ve lost the fire in their belly. And they’re in this silent pain of potential unexpressed going through life. And they think it’s okay.
And what I’m suggesting to you on this second leadership lesson I’ve learned from my mentors is as you shift from the herd, and rise to the rare air of that 5% or the top .001%, you’re going to have to think differently. You’re going to have to feel differently. You’re going to have to install different rituals. You’re going to have to perform in different habits. You’re going to have to be eccentric. And what I’m encouraging you is develop the character power to get good with being strange. Develop the interior bravery to be comfortable being eccentric. And if people ridicule you, and if they laugh at you, and if they don’t understand you, please remember, every great leader, every bold genius was misunderstood.