You Cannot Live an Extraordinary Life by Doing What Ordinary People Do

How to carve your own path and live the life you want

Reece Robertson
Ascent Publication
Published in
5 min readSep 17, 2018

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“Ironically, it is those rare individuals who decide to leave the crowd and act contrary to what “everyone else” is doing who typically achieve true success, wealth, and fulfillment.” -Anthony Moore

The truth is, most people aren’t living the life they want. Most people aren’t happy with the current circumstances of their life. And most people cannot say they wake up with true joy and excitement to face the day.

Why? Because they’re not on the path they’ve chosen for themselves. Most people’s lives are lived on other people’s terms. They do not what’s best for them, but rather, what other people expect of them.

As Derek Sivers wrote in his book, Anything You Want,

“Most people don’t know why they’re doing what they’re doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own. They spend decades in pursuit of something that someone convinced them they should want, without realizing that it won’t make them happy.”

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Reece Robertson
Ascent Publication

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