If you do what you did, you get …. what you got.





This is a well-known quote. The intention is to let you see that you need to do something different to get a different result.

The bushfires in Australia, the tension in the Middle East (especially between US and Iran) and the growth of mental illness are just a few indicators that we need radical change. 
Our track record on transformation has been rather poor. Mostly because we don’t really want to change ourselves, and our habits. 

Yes, we want others to change, but for example, we won’t change our own food, our drinks, and exercise regime. 
We want to use renewable energies, yet we keep on subsidizing fossil fuels. We want people to be healthy, but we still allow sugar to be added to most of the food. We want innovation, but an employee who comes up with a game-changing idea is often silenced.

The ‘good’ thing about the pain that many communities are experiencing is that people are really more open to radical change. Radical change requires new ways of thinking and behaving. That is what outliers have been doing for ages. 

The real change is that this urgency for change is now also been seen at the very heart of our society. Downing Street 10 symbolizes this in the UK.
It was a pleasant surprise to read the blog from the Chief Advisor of the Prime Minister. In his blog, he writes that “We want to hire an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds to work in Downing Street with the best officials”. 

That is very encouraging as when change starts at the core, it will be very likely that change will spread out everywhere.
Extraordinarians will no longer be seen as a pain in the ass, but as facilitators of change.

How does that make you feel? Are you an Extraordinarian?



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