Dare to stand out
People-pleasing. What a terrible affliction. It may make you liked (but not always) but man, do we miss a few tricks! From Rosa Parks on that bus in Montgomery, Alabama to the brave few who stood up to Nazi outrages, down to the man who stands up to the neighbourhood bully, these are the people who leave their mark.
Fitting in is not something I admire. I like the guy who dares to stand out, who questions stuff. Take Galileo in 1600. His idea was that the earth goes round the sun and not the other way round. And of course, he was told to shut up. But he didn’t. He wrote his book. And caused a lot of trouble. Charles Darwin did the same thing with his outrageous idea – although he took a lot longer to publish ‘The Origin of Species’.
How do you encourage this in children? If you know, please tell me!
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