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Originally Posted by Futuremogul888 Are you saying you are a reject or a rebel? What you are describing is a rebel but a misfit is a reject. In you over-generalized, stating opinion as fact tirade of garbage, you failed to realize that you were just insulting yourself. |
A rebel and a reject in regards to the way society "thinks."
Dreamer – Misfit – Alien
Dreamer – Misfit – Alien
Do you ever feel like you speak some sort of gibberish that your neighbors don’t understand?
Do you ever feel like a member of a secret off-the-grid society?
That’s because you are.
Yeah, we sort of joke about this… I don’t know about you, I *always* felt that way. Not just lately. Ever heard the song “Subdivisions”?
Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone
Last week I talked to a guy who works from home, for the famous Domainer Marc Ostrofsky, the guy who sold business.com for $8 million. He said, “I work in my pajamas, I come and go randomly, and sometimes disappear for days at a time. My neighbors all wonder what I do.”
My Roundtable members are allowed to bring guests to the Mastermind, and last year one brought his programmer, Benji. Benji came to Maui and I sat down and talked to him for awhile. He said, “The day I came to your Roundtable group was the first time I felt not like an alien.”
There’s a reason for that. Here’s my theory about ADHD geeks freaks and misfits:
Some of us found the ‘normal’ world so boring we just couldn’t pay attention. Still can’t. (That will never change, BTW.) When I was a kid I dearly hoped I wouldn’t get shoehorned into some mindless routine of commuting and punching the clock and spending a cheap 1.5 week vacation getting pitched for time shares I couldn’t possibly afford.
But when us ADHD geeks find something we love, we can focus on it for hours. The ADHD is G-O-N-E.
There’s not enough kids in any classroom of 26 pupils for the one ADHD misfit to feel like he has a friend. No, his true friends are scattered all over the world, sitting in all those other classrooms, also subdivided into minorities of 1, also outnumbered.
Well guess what, when you all of us together, magic happens.
It’s been the world against us for 30 years – and now it’s us against the world. WE finally have a chance of winning.
Do YOU have true friends and allies?
Do you have people who will devote hours of their non-ADHD focus zone to helping you solve YOUR problems? Do you have comrades for whom YOU would jump on a plane and help, if that’s what they needed to punch through the brick wall?
You should never do this alone. The good news is, you don’t have to.
Perry Marshall