Weird
As an artistic soul, I have never quite fit in with everyone else. I have never been much of a follower and always marched to the beat of a different drummer. I was never fashionable, or popular, and pretty much just did my own thing without bothering to worry what others think about me.
While I don’t consider myself to be a genius by any means, many geniuses, inventers, and very innovative people are considered weird or eccentric. They often stand out from society, are idiosyncratic, and live unconventional lives. Nicola Tesla, the famous physicist and inventor, was weirdly obsessed with pigeons and would spend hours feeding them in the park, even going so far as to bring injured pigeons home to nurse them back to health. And Leonardo da Vinci, the original Renaissance Man, wasn’t a fan of sleeping, so he took multiple short naps a day instead of sleeping only at night. He was also left-handed and employed mirror-writing, but that was most likely to avoid smearing the ink with his hand.
If you are a weirdo like me, here’s an interesting article by Charlie Gilkey of Productive Flourishing to help you figure out if you have what he calls the Weirdo Syndrome.
I have always been kind of a weirdo, and that is not a bad thing. It’s the weirdos that think outside the box and see things, not as they are, but how they might be. They are the ship’s captains not afraid to sail off the edge of the earth. They are the astronauts, the pioneers, and the bold adventurers forging new paths for themselves and for mankind.
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