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Do you feel like you are invisible?



Do you feel like good things in life avoid you? Everything great happens to someone else. She got birth. She found a great man. He got a promotion at work. He won the lottery. 

Also, you might feel you don't fit in the community. It connects everyone here with a common interest, but you are the intruder. People avoid you like a plague because you are different. Don't worry, famous people are usually different. Their ideas are different, and their ways are unusual. How could the average community with some formal rules understand that we are not all the same and that is wrong to push us all into the same box?


It is important to see average thinking in the mind of an average employer who is working 8 or more hours daily and who did not hear for the better. 

"I must go with my colleague to the business restaurant for lunch. If I sit alone, everyone will think I am a weirdo. I must talk with my colleagues about my private life because I must fit into the community. It is like a part of team building. I must be good with my neighbors even if they are noisy because it is appropriate."

When you show defiance to such people, they will try to eliminate you from their circle, or at least ignore you. You are invisible to them because you scare their peaceful, ordinary lives. 

If you see famous people's biography, many of them go through abuse, bullying or other bad experiences marked them. How you can jump out from the crowd if you are the same as the crowd? At least, you must inspire the crowd to stop fearing judgment. What will others say? Who will hang out with me?

Your team will not always be in the place where you live or where you work. Your team will be sometimes outside, even out of your country, but in the internet age, the world is not far away as it used to be. 

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