No two fingerprints are the same. No one individual has identical palm marks. No two tigers have the same stripes. Why would you want to be anything but original? Why would anyone desire to be anything but authentic? Why would you pay attention to being regular when you were made unique? Why would you subscribe to the subtle but pervasive emotional blackmail to conform to other humans as you? Why would you give in and desire to be what others want you to be, instead of you being or becoming the masterpiece that you truly are?
Some persons deride other persons for daring to be different or for not conforming to their own personal standards. Some persons have worked so well on themselves that they have earned and manifested their uniqueness. That is exceptional mastery of creativity. They should just live same and not seek to make others be like them. Everyone is different from everyone. You must accept this knowledge and walk in same religiously, by giving your everything to self-discovery, self-awareness, self-development and self-actualisation.
It is the definition of unique. Being unique is being authentic. Being authentic means being yourself and not a copy of another. Each one of us must stay unique and not modify ourselves to please others or to fit into the mould of others. The real strength of interdependence is to showcase your independence. Your independence is your unique traits that you have brought to negotiate on the table of value and service. This uniqueness is your competitive advantage.
When you walk the path of self-awareness, you consistently seek and live in the originality of who you are. That is your priceless power. It is essential that you know that diversity is truly beautiful. We must all learn to harness diversity: of cultures, of races, of opinions, of ideas, of creativity, of skills and gifts/talents. This is the only way that collaboration can be a value and strength.
Failure to hone the skill of collaboration is costly. The reason you have to find yourself is to help or support others in the space where you play. As there are different faces so are there different thoughts and ideas. Let everyone be who they are in positive value and let no one seek to occupy the space of another person. Though we collaborate, we bear a unique code which keeps us in a mould, but with adaptability installed in our psyche, we can play well.
Workplaces of whatever settings or types have to do with the coming together and attraction of different skills and talents. Employers of labour do employ talents because they cannot do it alone. They honour the code of diversity. Work is structured on the basis of differentiation of everything--operations and processes. These are based on the principle of uniqueness, where each process in the line of operations requires some speciality. What harm would you have done to your inclination by embracing conformity and uniformity? What value would being a copy serve both you and others?
If we were created to be uniform, why do we need to collaborate and interdepend? If we all think alike, then really nobody is thinking. Someone scolded another person for thinking the way they thought because the person thought differently. Is that not why they are them and not you? Is anyone really thinking if everyone is thinking alike? I grew up to learn that variety is the spice of life. And because I see that in all of nature, I believe wholeheartedly in the principle.
Buckminster Fuller tried to fit into a world of business where he did not belong. The frustration that he was faced with almost cost his life after he had lost what seems like everything in life. As he contemplated suicide, a voice instructed him otherwise and made him retrace his steps. He realised that people suffered more from sameness, from the inability of doing things differently, than from non-conformity. He swore that he would never listen to anything other than the unique voice from within. This is the voice of originality that guides one through the valley of the shadow of death, and yet one finds peace and fulfilment.
It is a sign of weakness to want to be like others. It has nothing to do with the real grind. It is cheating on the concept of self-awareness, which holds self-discovery, self-development, and leads to self-actualisation and mastery. Wanting to be like others or accepting to be converted to the template that others hand you, robs you of your own unique and divine template. It is an offence against the work of creation. You cannot manage for long something that robs you of authenticity because it does not resonate with you.
Anything other than the authentic cannot endure. Though the path and process to actualising the potentials of our uniqueness is a gruelling one, it becomes a joyful journey when we both accept the reason for it and live in the realisation of its pros. Afterall, pros would be invalid where there is a lack of cons to juxtapose with. As we begin to walk that path in conviction, we become one with it and our stripes show what and who we are.
The Code of Uniqueness is the code we crack before we can earn true mastery. Anything that we may claim to be great at outside the unveiling of our uniqueness makes us a copy. This is a lesson we must all learn. We must go beyond knowing this. We must live in the application. It is almost impossible to be your true self and burnout in exhaustion. It is impossible to become stressed by staying unique. I can imagine the sun, the moon, the stars and other elements that maintain their original order and positions right from creation. The success of their continued service to humanity is that they have remained in their original state and form.
Your peace stays intact when you stay authentic. By being a copy requires that you are always trying and striving to be what you are not. I do believe that such a lifestyle comes with stress, pains and avoidable trouble. Let me share the thought that just hit me now: bomb is composed of many different components whose positions are altered by man and forcefully brought and bound together. When it detonates, each different component seeks to find its place of originality. In the process of seeking its place, it endangers anything that stands in its way. How authentic this is, I don’t know, but it seems credible a thought.
To unearth your Code of Uniqueness means that you must make yourself the sacrifice. You must sacrifice your irredeemable time, money and every resource at your disposal. You must be willing to wait and indeed wait. This is gruelling and enervating. You have to die to yourself in order to exhibit your uniqueness. When the Immortal manifested in mortality, He showed His immortality by taking a mortal body and walking that path. Through physical death, he showed he had the uniqueness of immortality through resurrection. He was the sacrifice. You have to go through your period of hibernation and die daily to yourself in order to exhibit your uniqueness.
Truly great and audacious entrepreneurs go through their Moksha Moments when they give their all to their convictions: They sacrifice formal education, they sacrifice all of their money, they separate themselves from everything that is capable of eroding the values they need and robbing them of their uniqueness. They make definite statements with their exemplary and sacrificial lifestyles. No wonder they are masters in their chosen fields.
In your search to crack your own code, do not let anyone detract or belittle you for whatever they see or perceive as your deficiencies. Focus on your strengths; stay on those things that flow to you from the depth of your being; and do always know that everyone has their deficiencies. Often, people who jeer at others are busy bodies who have no time to even find themselves because they live devoid of personal vision and compelling inclination.
Robert Greene said, “When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others…direct yourself toward the small things you are good at. Do not dream or make grand plans for the future…concentrate on becoming proficient at these simple and immediate skills…This will bring you confidence…Proceeding in this way, step by step, you will hit upon your Life’s Task.”
The reason people jeer is that you are not doing things like they are doing. That they laugh at you for trying to discover yourself and striving to be who you are is something you should use as a strength instead of a weakness. Something should let you know that you are unearthing your uniqueness. And if you persist, you will be the last laugher and sought after one. Persistent and compelling desires, patience and much endurance, and confidence earned from doing small personal tasks that earn you deep understanding in a specific field of endeavour are strong values in this great drive.
The Code of Uniqueness is the Divine Code embedded in you. For you to excel, you must unlock the code through self-deciphering. Then, you move on to master it over a period of time. It comes with much trials, practice and iteration. If it took the Infinite Intelligence time to put it together, why do you think it would cost you ease or something less to discover it? Your Code of Uniqueness is within you. It takes either only you to truly find and know it or a gifted eye from without. But you must act it and make it available to others through value and service.
