We are so inspired by the famous personalities that sometimes we try to follow them, we try to be like them, for example, every new individual in the field of investment wants to be like Warren Buffett, every new entrepreneur wants to become like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg and in every field, every new individual has a dream to become like the most successful person in that particular field. It's really great to be inspired by things that motivate you to be a good person, but do you really want to follow them? I mean to say do you want to be the 2nd Warren Buffett or the 1st you? Following them means you are trying to copy them, you are trying to follow the same path or routine that they followed, but do you really think following or copying the same path as they did will make you like them?
Everyone has a different question paper in life. Trying to copy others will take you nowhere. For example, Jay Shetty is an Indian British Internet personality, storyteller, and motivational speaker. After meeting a monk when he was 18, Jay started redefining success for himself. He now wanted a life of service, impact, and passion as opposed to money, fame, and power. After graduating with a 1st class BSc (Hons) Degree in Behavioral Science from Cass Business School, inspired to make a difference in the world, at 22 he went to live as a monk across India and Europe. He traded his suits for robes, shaved his head and lived out of a gym locker for 3 years. And that's how he finds wisdom for himself and now he is simply trying to "Make Wisdom Go Viral." He is one of my inspirations. Now it doesn't mean that I should serve as a monk and then I will find wisdom for myself. He has a different question paper in his life and I do have a different one. Here the most important thing is not to copy someone, but to learn how they achieve those feet in their life.
Okay fine, you are inspired by a person, you are not following them and are learning from them, but also you are unable to achieve the same height that the person who inspired you is having. And after trying for a few times, you change your inspirations and again the same loop starts and ever ends until and unless you don't be yourself or believe yourself. Let's discuss how it works.
The most common thing about all the famous personalities is that they believe in themselves or they be themselves i.e. when you go back in history and read or watch biographies of the famous personalities, you will find that there were a lot of people who never supported them for being themselves, who never believed them and in most of the cases, even the family members were against them for being themselves. But the thing that made them famous is because they believe in themselves, they never gave up on themselves and they never get affected by what people think and talk about them.
The most important thing we lack in our life is we don't believe in ourselves and give up after failing a few times. And also we do so believe in others that we stop being ourselves and start doing something else according to someone's choice. I would like to put a situation which will make this clear. I am a blogger by choice. I do write what I feel and what I felt at some time in the past and about the experiences and story based on true events of my as well as other's life. So if now after reading my few posts and blogs, anyone of my family members or anyone friends of mine or any senior or faculty told me what am I doing, why I am sharing my true events or bad experiences in public like this and that. What I am doing is I am being myself, I believe in myself and I know I will not regret doing this. So here if I stop being myself or believing myself and act as per my family members, friends, seniors or faulty, I might be someone good or great in future in their eyes, but I won't be myself, I won't be great in my eyes or I won't be happy because I have achieved something that is not of my interest or choice. And don't take it otherwise. I don't mean you should go against your family or friends, but what I mean is to be yourself and try to convince your family or friends if you truly believe in yourself and believe in what are you doing. And exceptionals are always there. But the most important thing is to believe in yourself even if no one is there to believe you and that's how you get your success, your deserving success.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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