The choice you must first make is YOU. James Altucher said it best: “Human beings are born pioneers.
The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.
The ethic of the Choose Yourself era is to not depend on those stifling trends that are defeating you. Instead, build your own platform, have faith and confidence in yourself instead of a jury-rigged system, and define success on your own terms.”....
Defining success on your own terms. Think about it. Not societal norms, conventional wisdom or whatever popular culture dictates.
Since the dawn of man’s time on earth, the basic human drive has been to seek out frontiers.
Consider the great migrations, manifest destiny, crossing the Bering Strait, early European exploration, colonization, refugeeism, breaking the sound barrier, one-hundred story buildings, a walk on the moon, the Wright brothers and aviation, nanotechnology, splitting the atom, finite mathematics, the artificial heart. I could go on...
It’s everywhere in history. It’s everywhere right now, right in front of us. Even the Pilgrims did it. They chose themselves.
The hallmark of the human evolutionary spirit has been to carve out our own path, our own method – our own truth.
The Burger King Restaurant chain built an international brand around “have it your way”. It’s time to return to that way of thinking. ....................................................................-
