Dare to Be Different (2)

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True success comes from knowing yourself and being yourself. In as much as we idolize others and wish to be like them, the fact is, we can never be like them. God never created you to be a replica of another person.

For this reason, God created you to be different from others. He also deposited in you unique unlimited potentials. And he expects you discover, develop and focus on your dominant talent and not the talents of others.

The tendency to imitate super successful people is there, but as Emerson said, “Imitation is suicide.” If you imitate others, the best you can be is second rate. The secret of becoming a super star is to BE YOURSELF.

The story is told of a great American musician called George Gershwin. Gershwin began life as a poor music composer, earning a meager sum of $35 a week in New York City. However, his biggest wish was to be like the famous American musician, Irving Berlin.

One day, Berlin spotted George performing excellently. He offered to employ him as his music secretary and be paying him $105 a week (triple of what he was earning).

But he however suggested, “George, I advise you not to take this job, because if you do, you will become second rate Irving Berlin. But if you say to yourself, ‘I, George Gershwin, am unique, and I’ll be nobody else but George Gershwin,’ you can become immortal.”

 George grabbed what Berlin told him and refused to take up the job. He went away to develop his own talent instead of laboring in vain to be like Berlin his idol. In the end, he became a great American music icon!

Choosing  the Path to Stardom

Dear reader, the easy path is not the best path. Often, we are tempted to take the easy path because we don’t want to ply the difficult path, though it is the difficult path that leads to stardom.

As Frank A Clark said: “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” It is easier to imitate others than to discover and be oneself. But as easier as it is to imitate others, we can never be like those we are copying; the best we can be is second rate or what I call “photocopy.” Photocopy cannot be original. Where an original is needed, photocopy cannot be presented.

In law, original documents are referred to as “primary evidence,” while photocopies are referred to as “secondary evidence.” Where primary evidence is required, you cannot tender secondary evidence.   It is only in exceptional circumstances that that secondary evidence will be accepted in lieu of primary evidence (e.g., when the primary evidence is lost, destroyed or cannot be found).

So, as long as primary evidence is available, secondary evidence is   of no use. What does this go to show? It goes to show that only the best is good enough. And to be the best, you have to be original. This means you have to be yourself and stop copying others.

A poor music composer, George Gershwin was tempted to work as music secretary to Irving Berlin, a music super star he had always idolized, much especially as Berlin was ready to pay triple of the amount he was earning.

Thanks a million to Berlin. He was a true mentor. He never concealed the true position of things to the up and coming George. He made George to understand that the only way to be truly great was to be on his own rather than worked for him.

There are many who, when they get to the top, would destroy or hide the very ladder they used to climb to the top, so that others won’t find it and use it to get to where they are. Not Berlin!

If all super stars will be liberal enough, like Berlin, to reveal their success secrets to people, we would have many more super stars, and the world would be the better for it.

Be Somebody

One of the most adored US presidents is Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was raised in poverty, but he had a mother who spurred her on to become a super achiever. Any time she observed that Lincoln was unserious, she would say, “Abe, don’t be a ‘nobody,’ be ‘somebody’.”

Dear reader we need this kind of encouragement and motivation. We shouldn’t be a “nobody” considering the enormous potential God had bestowed on us. God’s reason for depositing in us unique and unlimited potentials is that we should be “somebody.”

And the way to be somebody is not by copying others but by being yourself. The best you can be is to be yourself and not a replica of another person.

If George Gershwin chose to work for Irving Berlin as his music secretary and tried to be like him, he would have become a “nobody.” But because he chose to be himself, because he chose to be unique and different from Berlin and others, he excelled and became immortal. No list of America’s most outstanding musicians will be complete without the inclusion of George Gershwin!

Dear reader, I urge you to dare to be different. Never imitate any person. Choose to be yourself. It is when you chose to be yourself and not a photocopy of another person that you will stand out.                                          

Until I come your way soon, go and live victoriously!

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