Do Not Follow The Crowd

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowds."

Edward de Bono

It is important to point out that our need to conform is strongly rooted in ourselves since our origin.

Luckily in the history of humankind there always had been some individuals like Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and many others who did not think as the crowd.

Many of us believe that those special individuals were genius, not ordinary people, and that is true.

I would not to say that everyone should become necessarily a genius, but it is important, on my opinion, to study the biography of these great minds.

I mean that we can look at the way those extraordinary people thought and acted, then we can try to insert some new ideas into our own context.

I did that many times in my life and every time I learned something that subsequently, I put into practice with great results.

I have noticed that those genius and inventors had a special characteristic in common: not only they were standing out of the crowd, but also they were free from critiques of their contemporary.

This particular feature has always fascinated me.

I agree it is not so easy to act as a nonconformist but I am also convinced that if you believe in something you feel to be right and in the same time it does not hurt anyone else rights, you should do it!