RANT 2: Misfits and Troublemakers.
This is a ‘bit’ from my rant as emcee at MUN’s Business Day Conference last week.
Thanks for the invite, I was honored and a little scared to face my old profs!
I’ve got one more mini-rant left in me.
This is for students and those of you trapped in a job consisting of mind numbing grunt work. Day in and day out and wondering how you got there.
The rest of you can celebrate and hug it out.
Here’s the skinny: The factory era in this province is over. Done. Gone.
In my dad’s time – not too long ago – there was a massive demand for the assembly line mentality – train people to repeatedly follow a process.
Train people to be cogs.
Cogs are replaceable.
By automation.
By cheaper labor.
Repeatable mindless behavior is NOT a good space to be in.
While it may feel safe, it’s lethally dangerous.
Even when I look at my daughter’s Grade 3 class it’s all about being compliant and fitting in. Work the same way. Sit in straight lines. For god’s sake FIT IN.
Olivia isn’t coloring outside the lines much unless I try to wrestle “the boring” out of her.
She is already being trained to be a cog in the wheel.
We spend so much time trying to be like everyone else we make ourselves less valuable.
And worse, replaceable.
If you want conventional results, use conventional wisdom.
Hey students – Do you want an opportunity or just a job?
You have two choices:
Be Invisible – uncriticized, anonymous and safe.
Be Remarkable – find an edge, take a chance, stand out.
Boring always leads to failure.
Boring is Risky.
The biggest chance our province and economy has is for you to make up some of your own rules and stop fitting in so perfectly to the status quo.
As Steve Jobs did so perfectly in this 1 minute video….
So the future of this province needs YOU.
Misfits like Charlie Oliver.
Fighters like Danny Williams.
Troublemakers like Craig Dobbin.
Round pegs in the square holes like Fred Cahill.
Change Makers like Cathy Bennett.
Because the ones crazy enough to think that they can change this province – are the ones who actually do change this province.
So if being a misfit and troublemaker sounds like you – your province needs you.
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Kevin…as always you inspire! Perfect timing! But you are missing one line “All of the Above like KC”
Here Here!
Apparently it’s Hear Hear! Either way it’s true.
I loved your rant!
you motivate and inspire me!
you are a mifit and troublemaker.
Great job!!
The quarterback knows that every play won’t work and that he will get sacked as well. The people on the sidelines record what goes right and what goes wrong but no one learns anything until the quarterback takes a risk and executes the play.
You must have the courage to fail.
i guess uts time for alot of us to stand up and rant and roar ………………
Kevin – as I said you need to go on tour as a motivational speaker! The youth of today need you!
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
And fear of failure is the enemy. Michael Jordan missed more than 9000 shots in his career, lost almost 300 games, 26 times failed to hit the game winning shot with no time left. He has failed over and over again. And thats why he was successful.
Kevin, loved your rant and you are absolutely right. Life is risky and we need more risk takers, more great leaders, more people to stand up and stand out. Check out what Sir Ken Robinson says about Creativity and Learning… our kids need to hear it.
Keep up the ranting!
and now the link…..http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html
Thank you for this – your rant is inspiring. I see kids get frustrated when they don’t “fit the mold” at school – it de-motivates them.
Its true most of us fit into this cog system but we do so to pay the bills and put food on the table. Its great to have the chance to step up and prove you can be different from everyone else but in most cases the people you work for just want you to go with the flow and if you don’t you are not there very long. Most people don’t have the bank roll to help them step outside that box and unless you are known nobody wants to give you that chance.
Thanks for this Kevin…just what every kid needs to hear! And me
Hey Meg – speaking of kids!
amazing how kids never think of failure or precedent – they don’t have the barriers we do – they have unfiltered imaginations. They really don’t have that fear of failure gene…..We need to think more like kids sometimes – its why we throw out big cardboard boxes and they turn the same thing we see as junk into houses and spacecrafts which can occupy a full Saturday afternoon
KC
Love the rant! Olivia and John provide us all hope..now their fathers that is another story!
Great job Kevin
Great rant. Cheers!