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Have you ever been in a condition where your inner voice tells you to do something different from what other people tell you to do? Have you ever felt it hard to follow your own guts when other people tell you otherwise? Have you ever felt that it is so hard to go against the grain? I have.. and i still feel afraid to go against the grain sometimes. But every time i feel like going against my guts to follow the masses, this is what i do;

  1. I say to myself that even if I were wrong, I would be the one facing the consequences. No one else should (or would want to) be burdened by what I did wrong. I want to be the one responsible for my own actions.
  2. I think about how most great people go against the grain to achieve their greatness. Think about Rosa Park’s refusing to give her seat to a white person in the bus, despite the law that obligated her to do so. Think about Warren Buffett who declined to buy internet stocks, despite that all of his peers were making so much money in them, until the burst of 2001 that is (some of them even lost 99.9% of their money in the stock market).
  3. I think about the fact that I could be the next ‘great one’, by trusting my guts and going against the grain.
  4. I think about the fact that I only get to live once in this world. and I want to live MY life, not other’s.

Every time I come to a crossroad, I always think of the ending of Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken”

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

…And that has made all the difference…