It’s safe to say that if everyone thinks you’re normal in every area of your life, you are probably not on the path to extraordinary achievement.
Often, a better barometer of your potential success would be those who criticize you as opposed to those who applaud your normality. Extraordinary and unusual effort is very popular after you achieve greatness, but while you’re on the road, average people will likely criticize and ridicule you for every attempt to stand out from the crowd.
We would all be better served by focusing our current behavior toward our desired goals not toward the approval of our friends and neighbors. Often, those who criticize and ridicule you do so because they either think you will fail or, more likely, they are afraid you will succeed. Your mediocrity makes those around you comfortable and complacent. Your success and achievement creates the seed of discontent in every one you touch. This seed of discontent can cause them to find their own path toward their own goals and eventual success.
Beware of times in your life when everyone thinks you’re doing okay. Success comes when you’re willing to do the things that normal people won’t do. Great success comes when average people think you’re absolutely crazy.
Seek to create an environment where the 95% of the world we would call normal thinks you’re crazy, but the 5% of achievers think you’re normal.
