Robin Sharma delivers a short motivational talk urging listeners to embrace their uniqueness and ‘‘strange’’ traits as gifts. He rebukes self-limiting labels ("I'm just a ...") and encourages protecting authenticity and the personal qualities that make each person special and visionary.
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The traits that make you strange are the gifts that make you special. It's the very things that make you different, that make you authentic. And the very nature of anyone who's living a visionary life. And you are living a visionary life, no matter what you're doing. Let's not get trapped in labels. Oh, I'm just a coder. I'm just a receptionist, an organization. I'm just a yoga teacher. I'm just a gym manager. I'm just a chef in a restaurant. I'm just a teacher. I'm just an entrepreneur. I'm just a student. I'm just a mom. I'm just a dad. No, you're not just. You're very special. There are no extra people on the planet today. You wouldn't be here with me right now. You wouldn't be with me on this leadership and personal mastery adventure that we're on. You wouldn't be interested in the rituals and routines of the A players that I teach if you weren't different. Those things that other people might not get, those are your gifts. You might be awkward. Awesome. You see the world through a different lens. And people are calling you weird and an oddball and a misfit and a kook. I want to say I love you because you're a kook. I love you because you're awkward. The history of heroism is a ride and an ascent towards possibility in a world where most people really are about cant. They're about rational thinking. They're about victimhood versus leadership. They're about. It's never been done. How can it be done? Protect the things that make you strange. Protect your authenticity. Protect the gifts that life has hardwired into you. They're not bad. They. They're awesome.
