Why It’s Better to Be Absolutely Ridiculous Than It Is to Be Absolutely Boring

Is it ok to be absolutely ridiculous?

Chances are strong that, especially as an entrepreneur, you’ve been called eccentric, weird, or crazy.

Entrepreneurs dare to play in the business world, knowing that working and playing hard don’t have to be separate.

Why It’s Better to Be Absolutely Ridiculous Than It Is to Be Absolutely Boring

We should not lose the essence of play and playfulness in adulthood.

Think of how innovative, intelligent, and creative children are and how happy they are.

Write new company ideas on napkins in coffee shops.

Skip with excitement at a product launch.

It’s way better to be absolutely ridiculous than snorifically boring, and it pays off in your personal and professional lives.

Creativity and the Qualities of the Entrepreneur

What is the most important quality of an entrepreneur?

Is leadership the ability to bring people together and motivate them toward a mutual goal?

Is it innovation, the ability to transform an idea into a product or movement that betters the world?

The entrepreneur possesses each of these traits:

• passion
• risk-taking
• savviness
• creativity

The entrepreneur gives creativity enough structure to thrive, while the traditional workplace often stifles it with too much structure.

Corporate policy, tracking success, and statistics have their necessary functions.

Yet, creativity is its own skill crucial to the continuous generation of ideas and implementation.

Among professionals, we recognize creativity as vital for problem-solving and living a full life, even when you appear absolutely ridiculous.

Feeling Lackluster? Embrace Passion

Embrace passion as a key to productivity that isn’t boring.

Are your friends and family tired of hearing the same complaints repeatedly?

Is your inner voice mostly self-critical?

Don’t wind up feeling bored with the same old routine.

Your life is not meant to be boxed into expected, predictable blocks of nine-to-five work, eight hours of sleep, and the times you eat and exercise.

Your passion can definitely become your profession.

Forget naysayers.

Let creativity bloom as you follow the passions of your inspiration.

Shifting your mindset allows new perspectives to open up new avenues in your personal and professional lives.

Your enthusiasm will inspire others, and they will be confident in your visions for the future.

If others see your passion as ridiculous, good!

Envy is an awkward shade of green that’s clouding their vision, while yours is clear.

Forget Expectations and Rules That Hold You Back

As interior designer Laurie Foster once said, “There are rules?”

Foster doesn’t reign creativity in and isn’t afraid to run with scissors when it’s to her advantage.

Ditch the rules and create your own guidelines and structures.

Be empowered to decide things based on analytics and your gut.

Imagine your life and business as a playground where the game’s rules are ever-changing.

Life and business are constantly shifting, and hard and fast rules are not true forever.

Are your expectations of how something should play out holding you back?

Old policies ruin companies when they do not shift with the times to meet needs, and not letting go of unhealthy patterns ultimately harms the individual as well.

Be ridiculous.

Do what you want.

Run with scissors.

Let Your Inner Child Out to Play and Be Absolutely Ridiculous

Adults have forgotten what playfulness means.

Children have important lessons to teach adults.

Children easily forgive to move forward, network to make friends easily, act genuine, and dream big.

When left to their devices, children make a game out of anything and innovate the most imaginative and effective inventions.

A child who believes he is a superhero becomes one, and adults become what they imagine themselves to be.

There is a power behind what you think and what you imagine.

Adults believe there is no place for creativity or playfulness because it makes you look ridiculous.

Who takes someone in a multicolor polka-dot tie seriously?

The answer is the right people.

You’re accessible to the right person and the right market for your personal brand.

People approach you or stare at you perplexed.

Either way, you’ve given them something to consider.

Imagine a middle school science teacher who wears a weird tie every day.

Obviously, this teacher is educated and knows what he’s talking about because it shows on the inside and the outside.

His knowledge is shared in a relatable and conversational manner, and his voice is animated and enthusiastic.

The tie gives his students something to smile about, to talk about.

He’ll be remembered for years to come as a ridiculously brilliant person, proving that anything is possible with curiosity and determination.

Redefine Fool-Hardy

The archetype of the fool is cast as someone who is ridiculous and is perceived to make poor choices because of recklessness, but that’s not true.

Every person is a mixture of experienced and inexperienced.

When you fail, you gain experience.

The fool becomes savvy and hardy because of a fresh, open mind and experience refinement.

Do not be afraid of starting from inexperience or at rock bottom.

Consider the fool who entertained kings and queens.

He’s fine with others laughing at him during his entertaining escapades because the fool made it his job.

He accepted the positives of making others laugh and the days when others laughing at him might not feel great.

As he gained experience, his stories and ridiculous feats taught others about his successes and (perhaps literal) pitfalls.

Many experienced entrepreneurs mentor budding entrepreneurs, acting as the hermit to the fool when really everyone has a bit of both within them.

Remind your inner fool to see the adventure within a new venture and the wisdom that comes with experience.

You Have Always Had Purpose

Perhaps the definition or incarnation of your purpose shifts with your life, but that is the benefit of being flexible with your goals rather than rigid.

Yes, your purpose is linked to the passion that sets you on fire and the experiences you have gained not-so-easily.

Entrepreneurs are constantly asked about their vision, and what’s behind it is often the idea of what gives life meaning.

Purpose is both tangible and intangible, and the benefits of having a purpose are scary because of the perceived limitlessness of that potential.

Remember to focus on the benefits of living your purpose.

What in the world does that mean?

Go back to the scary factor of potential—that’s anything, and you get to choose.

Live your life consciously, present, and empowered in choice.

Purpose gives you direction, motivation, fulfillment, and success because failure is the time you spend considering purpose and doing nothing rather than living.

Life is absolutely ridiculous, as is the fact that anything alive even exists

Doing nothing from a place of fear or contentment is boring!

Live purposefully and ridiculously!

What is it to lead, to lead a life?

It’s impossible to lead an absolutely boring life because you aren’t leading anything.

You’re letting life happen without regard to your story, and you’re letting others tell it to you rather than telling it and living it.

It’s much better to be absolutely ridiculous throughout the course of your life, from childhood to adulthood.

Play!

Wear polka dot ties.

Stick your tongue out.

Let ridiculousness be your first “rule,” and see your life thrive.

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