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How to Be Remarkable
The antidote to “toxic positivity”.
Something “remarkable” is defined as “unusual, interesting, or unique”.
Someone remarkable is someone worth paying attention to. Someone who does things out of the ordinary. Someone who excels.
But how do you become remarkable?
Recently, I read the book So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport, and the ideas in the book threw everything I thought I knew about career development, skill development, and excellence straight on its head. It made me realize that the moves that have happened for and against me in my 8-year career as a grappler and 3-year career as a writer haven’t happened for the reasons I thought they had.
It made me realize that I’ve been wrong about a lot of things.
It made me realize that in truth, if peace, happiness, or any of those other things I like to think about are your “goals”, nothing truly matters besides becoming remarkable.
Here’s how you can do it.
Focus on skills above everything else.
A lot of people today focus on perception over execution.
They want to seem successful and competent more than they want to be competent. They want the perks of winning, but…
