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If You Want to Be Exceptional…

Name: If You Want to Be Exceptional…
Uploaded: 2024-08-14T14:00:41+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that being exceptional inherently places a person outside the social ingroup, which triggers a deep‑seated…

14 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that being exceptional inherently places a person outside the social ingroup, which triggers a deep‑seated human aversion to shame and exclusion rooted in evolutionary survival instincts. While we naturally crave belonging, the speaker reframes the experience not as being permanently out of the group but as a transitional phase between groups. This lonely, in‑between period, though painful, can become a powerful window for extraordinary focus and productivity because it eliminates typical social distractions.

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If you want to be exceptional, by definition, you will be the exception. You will not be normal. You will be unlike the others. And so it makes sense that you would be in the outgroup. And it hurts as a human being because you want to be in the ingroup. It's part of our DNA. Shame is a real thing. And we don't want to feel that because in the natural world, if you're outside of the group, you have a much lower likelihood of living and procreating. So it's strong in our DNA to be in group. But the thing is, is that you're actually not in group or out of group. You're transitioning. You're between groups. And so in that lonely chapter, that's where you can do a disproportionate amount of work because you have no distractions.