The movie Office Space is about a man who is unhappy with his job and stumbles upon his happiness after being hypnotized, but it hits home with many people. We usually wake up, go to work and come home, repeating this cycle until we die. Society has programmed us to believe we cannot do better, according to Henry David Thoreau, we live lives of quiet desperation.That is why this film is a cult classic. https://mentorofmen.com/articles/lives-of-quiet-desperation

One of the best most homesey and tell it like it is salesmen was the great Zig Ziglar. I used to listen to him back in the days of cassettes. Yes I am that old. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LEARN, NO ONE CAN HELP YOU. IF YOU ARE DETERMINED TO LEARN, NO ONE CAN STOP YOU too many people get lazy and complacement. Every failure eery success is a learning expereicne. If you want to grow, then you need to learn.

Rather than relying on the enemy not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him. So many countries were not prepared against the Nazis for instance,that is why they fell.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away". How many times have you done what every one else has done simply because it is a social norm? Or worse, because you are afraid to different or afraid to fail. If you or someone you know want to dance to the sound of their own drum let them. I have had my friends, in their efforts to help me do better, have wanted me to apply for jobs I never felt comfortable with. Dont tear people down when they do something outside the norm. You can either help them or get out of their way, but don't rain ontheir parade.

WHAT? Let's examine this post and see what it actually means. Most people live lives of quiet desperation, they go to work raise their family, live for the weekend and DIE, their dreams unfulfilled. They die saying coulda woulda shoulda. We have always been told that Courage is the opposite of Coward. Not true. I coward runs and hides. Conformity is cowardice as yo are afraid to leave your box. You do what is expected of you. Courage is rebelling against the system, being the you, that you were always meant to be.