<pre><code> It’s no question that people are held back by their adherence to the beliefs of the majority or doing things in the conventional way. So many people today put so much into what others think that they can’t make a decision without consulting with someone else first. It’s okay to ask for opinions from friends or elders but you don’t necessarily need to follow that to the letter. Part of growing up is having new, foreign experiences and getting through them as though it’d happened before. You can’t make all the mistakes, nor can you prove everything to someone. Isn’t enough to know the stove is hot without having to touch it?
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<p>People grow up being told by teacher, their parents, and whomever else that they won’t amount to much and to just accept it. People think doing great things is for someone else; someone smarter, better looking, more educated, younger, older, without the same past, etc. But that’s a lie, I believe more strongly than anything that every one of us can be great if we don’t allow ourselves to believe everything people tell us about ourselves. </p>
<pre><code>If you think about it the advances we’ve made in technology is from those who thought “outside the box” so why are we still teaching kids that their just mediocre, or that they most likely won’t be famous. Why can’t they be extraordinary? Why not tell them they have so many options to be or do whatever they want if they just work for it? Don’t teach them to expect things to come whenever they ask for it, teach them that if they want it they have to work for it.
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