How to be Unique and Active???

Sahityika Poddar
Sep 3, 2018 · 6 min read

Be Unique so that you are irreplaceable, yet identifiable for others.

In the beginning when we were children, we used to do all those things that we were told not to do. We would love to play in the rain, and throw stuffs here and there and dirty ourselves and all sorts of nuisance. No matter how many times our parents stopped us from repeating the mistake, we would continuously keep on repeating it. We were children and we did what gave us happiness and satisfaction without caring about the surrounding world.

But consider the time now, we do not want to do anything unique. We do not want to plunge into something because we are afraid what the others will say. We do not want to say out loud the unique ideas that come into our mind because we are afraid of what the world will think. We have become extremely self conscious. We do the things and follow the standards that has been laid down by the society.

Let us look at an example to understand better. In a school the most important individual is the principal of the school. Below the principal are the teachers, teaching the relevant subjects and finally there are the students.

But does anyone pay attention to the person who cleans the toilet. He/ she is also an employee in the school. His work is extremely important because without him the school will be extremely dirty.

So who is more important? The principal or the housekeeping person?

Both of them are equally important to complete their individual jobs. If both of them do not do their work properly the school will be in a mess.

But do we ever plan to make a career on cleaning the washrooms?

Well, according to most it is a low grade job and has no value in the society. But who created these grades and values?

All of us aim to be a Doctor, or an engineer or a professor and earn money and respect with a high living standard in the society. But have we ever paid attention to the general problems that are faced by the individuals in their day-to-day life?

We cannot term the job of cleaning the toilets to be useless, because public toilets or school toilets are most of the time very dirty and especially females have to face a lot of problems dealing with it.

So why not create an automated robotic machine that can help to eradicate this problem. Cleaning the toilets doesn’t always mean bending down to clean it with a rag. It can also be a sophisticated technology which nobody has designed yet. Or maybe it is their in some other country and you have the opportunity to import the machine and implement it in the normal schools and colleges and also public restrooms. Its a cost effective way of starting your own business but has a potential of transforming you into a multi millionaire.

Therefore, you stand out from the pack of donkeys; you become unique by selling a toilet cleaning machine. You think differently from the majority. You find the problem faced by the general mass and establish a solution to it too.

But you have to believe in that experience that you have gained facing the problem on a day-to-day basis.

For example, when you go to demonstrate your product in front of the school’s management, they might not be convinced thinking, that the toilets are being cleaned manually and their is no requirement of automation.

But you can convince them based on your experience because you have faced it. You can offer them to use the machine for their ten toilets for free for the first 20 days. See their reaction. Challenge them that you strongly believe that at the end of the 20 days trial they are going to be convinced.

This is called killer attitude and works very well. You can never stop someone with this kind of an attitude.

You have to make the person in front of you belief that even if you do not take my product now, you will come begging for it, a few months later. This is because it is an acute problem and you are determined to solve this problem.

It is not a necessity for yourself but for them, it is. There are thousands of other schools and few from them will definitely be eager to buy your product. Such conviction will surely make them convinced.

Your energy to solve the problem should infect the person in front of you so that they can merge with your wavelength.

Whenever I go to crack a deal I always have this insight that whether the deal will get accepted or rejected, that will be decided by me. How do I get this confidence? Because I know the problem and I know the solution to it. So I know what it takes to create the impact of the work I am proposing.

Always be excited about the innovation that will create impact.

You are unique from the pack of donkeys because you are not excited by money, rather, you are excited by the impacts and its effects.

Money is important and it should be there to initiate the impact, but you are unique and money will never excite you. What you do and what people achieve are the theories that will instigate you to stand out and think different.

Showcase your impact in the lives of the students, in the lives of the general public. Showcase how the problems of health and hygiene will be eradicated immediately bu using your product.

Now, since you are reading this article, you might be very much motivated to start your own business of toilet cleaning machines.

No!! Your idea should be yours not copied from the others.

Find your specialty, something that is your passion, something that makes you happy. It may be different from what is expected of you. But that is fine.

It just has to be unique to your personality.

Be you. Be your own role model. Be creative. Walk with purpose — your gait is as different as your fingerprints. Stop hesitating — Take that risk — Being different is not always about being radical or straying away from the norms of the society. It is about not following the herd mentality simply to “fit in”.

Derive your energy from the the impact your decision will make fifty years from now, when you will not be alive, but your work will be, not from the money you will derive by taking the decision.

Learn to be the unicorn in the pack of donkeys.


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