Why is it that our society clearly celebrates the chance takers, yet we rarely encourage one another to take chances–especially those people closest to us?
Almost all your favorite artists quit the traditional to pursue their dreams. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates dropped out of college to pursue their passions. Regardless if you wanna be in art, or film, or accounting, or a pro athlete, the story is the same.
Go tell your husband that you’re quitting your well paying job to pursue a career in video and film. Or go tell your parents you’re dropping out of college to pursue photography full time and see what they say.
I’m not saying quit your day job on the spot. But I do find it strange that our culture by-and-large celebrates those people who have taken non-traditional paths to success, but yet it rarely encourages people to take those same paths when success is only a distant dream.
What is wrong with us?
Take that chance. And encourage others in your life to do the same.
Chase,
Even if I never become as famous, or as successful financially as you, I hope to achieve your level of positivity, drive and balance, and to be able to something that I love more times than not. I honestly think that even if you are not in the best position to go for the ‘big dream’, you should never write off your chances of achieving the other things I just mentioned… who knows, maybe the opportunity you think will never come your way just might – better to be able to grab it with a genuine smile.
Cheers mate.
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Sometimes you just need a final push in the right direction.
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Sometimes you just need a final push in the right direction.
> 1000 clicks on my blog and I’ll jump – promise
I think perhaps there is fear involved. People tend to be afraid of stepping out from their comfort zone, and also that they see success as only a result of following a certain path in life. The fact is that there are so many different paths in life and sometimes there is neither a correct nor incorrect road. It all depends on the individual 🙂
> I do find it strange that our culture by-and-large celebrates those people
> who have taken non-traditional paths to success, but yet it rarely
> encourages people to take those same paths
Just a guess: if we were all to follow “non-traditional” paths to success, then there would be no “traditional paths” to success; instead, there would be millions of individual paths to success (and to failure). We would not have any idea of the success rate of any such path, simply because one successful story does not a rule make.