You've probably already heard that you have to be a little crazy to be successful, and you probably rolled your eyes then, as you do now, and thought 'oh, how deep, let's call better people than ourselves crazy', but that's true. Madness and success are synonymous, writes Elite Daily.
Love, career, art, relationships, activism or poetry - all crazy people pushed the boundaries and that's what made them famous.
To prove that thesis, we have to go back in time. Haven't all those who discovered or created something new at some point been declared insane? Ernest Hemingway, Steve Jobs, Oscar Wilde, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol and Karl Lagerfeld - they are all 'different from others'.
People need to think differently and out of the ordinary to be able to do something new, and this is what makes 'crazy' people so successful. How many times have you said about someone that he/she is crazy, referring to the characteristics that set that person apart from the context of the "normal" pattern that you or society has set for you. Positively crazy, "about their work", those are the ones we love and who most often lead us.
1. They don't really care what others think
Crazy people figured out long ago what some of us can't remember: the sooner you stop caring what others think, the sooner you'll get ahead and be happy. When you are not stifled by mass expectations of what is 'normal', you will become freer and more creative.
2. Crazy people don't think conventionally
Most people think in the way society has given them. However, there are those who do not think so, but have broader perspectives and do not bother with what is normal and generally accepted. These are crazy people.
3. They are not familiar with the rules
The rules were created by people who lack imagination to control creative, brilliant and ingenious minds
How can you enjoy the spontaneity of new love if you are all the time restrained by time, protocols, and that does not suit either you or your partner? How can you create when you're following someone else's instructions all the time and are afraid to think beyond what already exists?
4. When you say 'no', they hear 'I challenge you'
Try saying 'no' to a crazy person and they will take it as a challenge to prove you wrong. Isn't the eternal desire to survive, the refusal to give up, finding another way, and the confidence to get back up after falling down exactly what it takes to become successful?
5. Crazy enough to believe in themselves
The world today is full of talent, so life has become one big competition.
When we realize how big the world is and how many people are fighting for the same job, the same person, the same dream home, we want to throw up our hands and give up. However, there are a few people who will succeed and make their dreams come true. It's not that they are more talented, smarter or better, they simply believe they are strong and special enough to get what they want. And they do what comes to their mind.
6. No fear of failure
The constant fear of failure is most often the main 'brake' that prevents us from taking risks and progressing. When our heart is broken, we don't see how we could ever recover from the fear of breaking again - that's why we better protect ourselves from new love.
Crazy people are not afraid to fall. They recklessly plunge below the surface where we just float in fear that what lies beneath will hurt us. Maybe that's how we protect ourselves from the bad, but unfortunately, we also protect ourselves from the good.
7. They don't ask for permission
Crazy people never ask permission. Their life motto is: "I would rather beg for forgiveness than ask for permission." They just do it. Maybe he'll end up in jail, maybe he'll win an Oscar. In any case, the fear of getting into trouble does not stop them from doing something revolutionary.
8. They are sprinkled with stardust
Children often try to understand what it is that makes movie stars 'stars', relating it to the stars in the sky and their brightness. When they grow up, they realize that what makes them so successful and famous is their personality. Their success is a direct result of not fitting into clichés.
9. They have integrity
Every leader of a social revolution has been called a 'madman'. Crazy people are impossible to silence when it comes to the truth.
10. Crazy people are driven by passion, not money
When money is the ultimate goal, a person cannot get very far. You may achieve financial success, but you will burn out. Without passion there is no maintenance and money is simply not enough.
Passion will bring you to a bigger and better smile than the desire for money ever will.
11. They follow the sixth sense
Crazy people trust their sixth sense, their heart, their instinct… We all have that gut feeling', but few of us follow it.
We're doing it wrong. Crazy people believe in themselves, follow that feeling and that's why they are successful.
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