"Are You Normal and hate Learning?"

“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?”

·       1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate.

·       Normal makes you Defensive toward Change,  Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone.

Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?”

·       It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”

·       2. You: “My life experience tells me that “abnormal” is dangerous, and scary. I don’t Hate learning, it just takes too long and more effort than it’s worth.”

·       3. Me: “I turned down offers to buy into Apple, Google & Amazon at a few bucks each. I was NORMAL. I did catch Gold at $35 and made a couple of bucks. That’s ABNORMAL. Which do you Choose?”

·       4. You: “I wish I bought any one of them. But RISK is scary, yes or no?”

·       5. Me: “And so is “Change”. Improvement is Change, and improvement come from Learning, so learning is scary too. Yet we know, “You SNOOZE, you lose.”

·       6. You: “I believe in learning, your motto, “The faster you learn, the more you EARN,” makes sense. But…”

·       7. Me: “Here’s why Normal is ‘Scary’. See: Psychological Science journal, 9.05.11, University of Pa. Jack Goncalo.

Creativity introduces new ideas, strategies & behaviors.

·       97% of people vote in favor of “Creativity”. But this loved

CREATIVITY produces mental Uncertainty. So Normal people REJECT creativity when they see it in action.”

·       8. You: “Are you saying normal-people cannot be creativity and make money?”

·       9. Me: “You got it in spades. When Normal folks personally get or see something original, new, & creative…they run like their fundament is on-fire.”

·       10. You: “Any proof for that belief?”

·       11. Me: “What and when was the last Major improvement or change at all in-your-daily-existence?

Human fear Newness because DIFFERENT is risky.”

·       12. You: “Not proof, in my opinion.”

·       13. Me: “Try this. We’re born ‘hardwired’ for 75% of what we do in life. Digestion, immunity, breathing & heart pumping, right? We have no UNCERTAINTY, it’s on auto-pilot. No decisions to make, it just works. DNA & RNA.”

·       14. You: “So we are born disliking the UNKNOWN. And only Freaks – the Abnormal people desire Creativity.”

·       15. Me: “Second reason: we are brainwashed (programmed) by family-media-culture & government what are Normal, acceptable goals, ideas & beliefs.

·       Do you want people to think you’re a Terrorist or Revolutionary? You get isolated by your own society. Education through graduate school, teaches us what is Normal. And Creativity is Not acceptable for 97% of us.”

·       16. You: “No. I admit newness sounds good, but let others be the guinea pig for novelty. My comfort zone finds Uncertainty too risky.”

·       17. Me: “Right. And that’s why we have Resistance to change located in a neural-network in our brain. Get this please:

·       We take PRIDE in the way we do things, even when they are harder & bad for us. “You-Can’t-Tell-Me-What-To-Do!” Professor Goncalo says: we associate negative works like Vomit-Poison-Agony with “Creative-Ideas”.

·       18. You: “OK, now that I’m aware of my resistance to change, so what?”

·       19. Me: “Accept that you hate Uncertainty, and need a new strategy to improve your life. More later, OK?”

·       See ya

·       Copyright © 2013, Bernard Wechsler

 

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