Thank for making my chuckle with the quote “Of course you’re unique, just like everyone else,” i had heard that b4 great post!!
Kevin
· 2 months ago
Some people need a long enough time to make the work. great post.
diyet
· 2 months ago
thanx for this helpful article..
pietersono
· 2 months ago
I agree with the words "You need to be honest to yourself ...". Because the truth is we have the problem that has not happened.
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· 2 months ago
Great point, many people tend to think they're *so* different from everyone else, and while that's true from a certain perspective, it's also very true that we share core needs, beliefs, and even physical gestures (a smile for example.)
You're totally right, we have more similarities than we have differences, and that's a huge lesson to learn, embrace, and really take to heart. -Sean
hydrofloss
· 2 months ago
It is the dynamic tension between the every day and the 'special' qualities that artists seek that allow art to emerge. But overall, you are right on - we are more similar than we are different. You have to love the fact that everyone love's to forget that as the truth...
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· 2 months ago
If you want to get super generic we definitely are like everyone else. And for that matter, chimpanzees are the same as you and me, 99% the same as you and I if you go by DNA. That must be why everyone loves apes, because they recognize that we humans are not special or unique snowflakes, we're just a bunch of apes.
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· 2 months ago
Excellent way to start off the article, I love it.
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· 2 months ago
depending on the point of reference we all fall into more of the same categories than different ones. matter, organisms, mammals, americans, internet surfers, etc. even without categories, our bodies extend to the ends of the universe.
Ledward
· 2 months ago
Great observation. Consider most all non-fiction writing. Related to the same topic or subject the authors are all saying basically the same thing--just putting it in different words.
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· 2 months ago
You know, I think if more people contemplated the idea that we're more alike than not, we'd probably have a lot less problems in the world. Sure, we all want to believe we're unique and special, but isn't realizing that we all feel the same things and the same way about things more important?
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· 2 months ago
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austinkeutzer
· 2 months ago
I agree with you Steve, that you need to be honest with yourself about where you and your creative energy fit into the scheme of things, which you actually work for and how what you do to better help people that you are part of the . Because masing2 people basically have the advantage in him, but sometimes they do not realize it.
S. Brian Smith
· 2 months ago
While I can appreciate your point of view, I think it's rather defeatist. In my opinion, it's the similarities which make us fail. Artists are successful because they can take a familiar concept and present it in their own unique point of view. How else could Di Vinci, Pollock, Picasso, and Warhol all become successful? They created something that is unique. Artists that create "similar" are not exceptional - I challenge you to find an "exceptional" artist at the stalls of your local art fair.
Business people are successful due to their uniqueness as well. Your example of organic pomegranate juice is a perfect example of uniqueness. Someone out there longs for organic pomegranate juice, but doesn't know how to obtain it. The fact that someone starts a business proves their uniqueness in either their idea or their ambition (you may have thought of opening a store that sold organic pomegranate juice, but lacked the ambition). Yes, there are purely copycat businesses, but it could be argued that they are unique in their blatant similarity!
Employees also require uniqueness. If you were exactly similar to your boss, he'd have no use for you, other than to complete repetitive tasks. Businesses that hire similar people are doomed to lack innovation. A business without innovation is doomed to fail.
Once again, good post, but I prefer the more optimistic point of view!
sbspalding
· 2 months ago
In many ways I see this as optimistic, though I completely understand where you are coming from here.
My point was that while everything is intrinsically different and while differences drive success, we shouldn't forget that a big part of the reason that things work is because they are "sufficiently similar."
If you take it to the extreme, consider "experimental filmmaking." For every Blair Witch project (which succeeded because it was slightly off-key with what was out there at the time) there are dozens and dozens of movies that fail utterly because you simply cannot relate to them. They are so out there that they really speak to no one. I would argue that Blair Witch succeeded because it relied heavily on classic horror tropes but twisted them just enough to make something meaningful.
Your employee idea is spot on but I would argue that "culture fit" is critically important as well. If someone is an incredible visionary but doesn't fit into the culture (can't relate to others or see things from a wider perspective) the relationship will not work. More basically, the two biggest aspects of leadership are vision (a function of being unique) and team building (a function of appreciating similarities).
I think this post was my response to this belief that it's only differences that are meaningful. I've written before on the subject and I believe you have to have something unique to bring to your project or it's not worth doing, at the same time though I think it's a mistake to forget that despite our differences a lot of what makes things work is the understanding and appreciating of our similarities.
Thank you for the comment!
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· 2 months ago
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Single Maria
· 2 months ago
Great post) I cant stop admiring your talent in finding such a good, useful and interesting information.
maxwellalon
· 2 months ago
Every person has the qualities and characteristics of each, why it is considered the same?
David Patterson
· 2 months ago
Thanks, this is so useful, Stave
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· 2 months ago
Very interesting and educative information. Liked your starting about You're just like everyone else. I am waiting more for such posts.
mysobe
· 2 months ago
Just like anyone else we are unique and our prescence here on earth is with a purpose , and as you said it serves someone. Our talents and gifts serves someone not just for ourselves.
ijstyles
· 1 month ago
Very inspirational and self-improving article. Nice to read.
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· 1 month ago
This reminds me of that quote from The Incredibles: Once everyone is super, no one will be. It struck me so much, because it's very true. If everyone is unique, then no one is. We all have our differences and similarities.
BlackKatz
· 1 month ago
Other than the inscisive writing what I love about your blogs are the amazing images. Where do you find them?
We're all humans afterall. Born with the same carnal instincts that "god" gave us.
Terry
· 1 month ago
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I'm amazed that as self-absorbed as most of us are that we ever get anything done as a society. On the other hand, the herd mentality makes it extraordinarily difficult for innovation to take place. Thank God there are brilliant people that can rally others to their POV. Otherwise we'd just stand still.
Nannetta
· 1 month ago
I daresay that the quote in the final paragraph would not have sat well with Rousseau, who famously stated in his Confessions, "I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different."
This is what happens when the understandable desire to stand out from the crowd spills over into obsessive narcissism. But there's another common thread that tends to keep such egomania in check: the understanding that everyone falls short in different ways and degrees. And though he would probably be loath to admit it, Rousseau was no different.
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· 3 weeks ago
useful information for those who tends to lose themselves in this tight competent world....
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· 3 weeks ago
everybody is unique in their own way. but, the thing is you have to wait until the world identifies you
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· 2 weeks ago
I am ok with the fact that although we appear unique each and everyone of us, we are much more similar than we imagine.
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· 1 week ago
Needs. Need and wants. Things I desire that nobody else does, at least not the way I do, in the form I do, with the pre-conditions and checklists I have for them. Everybody has them, but we don’t articulate them quite into the detail they need to be in order to make them actionable.
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You're totally right, we have more similarities than we have differences, and that's a huge lesson to learn, embrace, and really take to heart.
-Sean
Thank you for the information, this could be for our learning materials. Good luck!
Business people are successful due to their uniqueness as well. Your example of organic pomegranate juice is a perfect example of uniqueness. Someone out there longs for organic pomegranate juice, but doesn't know how to obtain it. The fact that someone starts a business proves their uniqueness in either their idea or their ambition (you may have thought of opening a store that sold organic pomegranate juice, but lacked the ambition). Yes, there are purely copycat businesses, but it could be argued that they are unique in their blatant similarity!
Employees also require uniqueness. If you were exactly similar to your boss, he'd have no use for you, other than to complete repetitive tasks. Businesses that hire similar people are doomed to lack innovation. A business without innovation is doomed to fail.
Once again, good post, but I prefer the more optimistic point of view!
My point was that while everything is intrinsically different and while differences drive success, we shouldn't forget that a big part of the reason that things work is because they are "sufficiently similar."
If you take it to the extreme, consider "experimental filmmaking." For every Blair Witch project (which succeeded because it was slightly off-key with what was out there at the time) there are dozens and dozens of movies that fail utterly because you simply cannot relate to them. They are so out there that they really speak to no one. I would argue that Blair Witch succeeded because it relied heavily on classic horror tropes but twisted them just enough to make something meaningful.
Your employee idea is spot on but I would argue that "culture fit" is critically important as well. If someone is an incredible visionary but doesn't fit into the culture (can't relate to others or see things from a wider perspective) the relationship will not work. More basically, the two biggest aspects of leadership are vision (a function of being unique) and team building (a function of appreciating similarities).
I think this post was my response to this belief that it's only differences that are meaningful. I've written before on the subject and I believe you have to have something unique to bring to your project or it's not worth doing, at the same time though I think it's a mistake to forget that despite our differences a lot of what makes things work is the understanding and appreciating of our similarities.
Thank you for the comment!
This is what happens when the understandable desire to stand out from the crowd spills over into obsessive narcissism. But there's another common thread that tends to keep such egomania in check: the understanding that everyone falls short in different ways and degrees. And though he would probably be loath to admit it, Rousseau was no different.