Like No Other; One of a Kind: You
A few years ago I read a famous book by Shiv Khera titled ‘You can win’,with the theme that still reverberates in circles of management and leadership, ‘Winners don’t do different things they do things differently’.
Some time back just happened to see the book once again in my bookshelf and
that very catch line,I mentioned above caught my sight on its cover and set me
thinking.
Are we all not different from one another in every possible and conceivable way?
Do we not think, eat, speak, work, write, read, drive, play, walk, run, and do
everything else in our own unique way?
Every common task we do be it eating, sleeping, or writing, we do it in a different way from any other person.It could be safely said that in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, doing a task in the exact same way another person does it,is virtually impossible.Even the greatest artists who make fakes of classics are unable to match every single stroke of the brush made by the original painter.
Why then must one think of deliberately doing things differently, when doing something differently comes as naturally to humans as say, breathing?
I suppose it would make perfect sense to just do your thing without thinking too
much about being similar or different because your individuality will stand out anyway.
The one thing you must ensure though is that what ever it is you do you do it in
the best possible way you can. Put every iota of your energy, every ounce of your
creativity and every breath of effort possible into doing it in the best possible
way.
This will set you far apart from the rest of your competition .
The key is to be yourself because the undeniable fact is that you are unique, you are one of a kind, the ways of your mind, your thought process and your actions
cannot be totally copied and at the same time you cannot emulate any other person to the fullest, to a hundred percent either.
If there is any thing that a person should strive to do differently is to try to do every thing he or she does in the best possible way he or she can; for the simple reason that most people do not try to do their best, all the time, every time, with every thing they do.
This one ‘difference’ will set you so far apart from the rest that the difference will be as stark as that between night and day.
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