You should never be different just because. What we’re referring to is giving voice to your unique self. What other people might consider negative differences can actually be positive. You just need to live your own life and understand that your differences from others make you unique and special.

Incidentally, there are a lot of advantages of being different from the norm. You don’t become a Leonardo da Vinci, Bruce Lee, Steve Jobs, or Joe Rogan and change the world by being a carbon copy duplicate of everybody else. Here are just five of the many significant benefits of embracing your truly unique and different self.

1 – You Find Your Tribe

Believe it or not, your inherent differences from other people might not be truly rare. In other words, there are others like you, people with ideas, traits, and abilities that aren’t considered normal. Continue reading →

Being different isn’t always bad. Sometimes it can solve problems that people didn’t even know they had. That’s the case with today’s version of the clothespin. You may have some in your home right now. The modern clothespin is a simple design with two prongs, a spring, and a fulcrum.

While this might be the only design of that product you’ve ever known, it wasn’t always that way. In the early 1800s, Jeremie Opdebec invented what he called a clothes peg. Peg is an appropriate word here because the product was simply a long, cylindrical piece of wood with a slit cut down the center of the rod.

Wet clothes were hung over a clothesline outdoors. Then the wooden peg was pushed over the clothes to keep them from falling off the line. That basic construction meant clothes pegs were inexpensive and easily made. This quickly became the accepted way of attaching clothes to a clothesline so they could dry in the sun. Continue reading →