The need to be special

I firmly believe everyone is special, but not everyone looks for their point of specialty and explode it with the same passion and for the same reasons. However, I insist that schools, instead of trying to teach us everything they consider "a cult person must know", should devote more time to help us find not what they believe we are good at, but what we really have passion for.
I took some of my M.Sc. thesis to describe how motivation is the king among the pillars of the organizational improvement. Many go to work every single day with few more than the hope that the day will end soon, with the least undesirable interactions (which, for many, are ALL the interactions they will have, because they hate themselves trying to do a job they feel few to none passion doing).
You can come and develop skills. You can ask many psychologists, sociologists, and even Marcus Buckingham (the author of "Go put your strengths to work" and "Now, discover your strenghts", among many others), and all of them will tell you: you do easier and happier what you are good at.
Then, why aren't we all doing what we want? Did you say money? Well, that's my best approach as well. I am still struggling to understand what political movement can balance the freedom of men and fight poverty with efficiency, but that is not the discussion here. The topic is that many of us are rising stars following dreams from others, and not pursuing our own inventions, at the big price of our happiness and the pride to do what we consider right for humanity. If we are focusing on what really matters the most in our skills set, trust me, no one will be able to deliver something better than you.
Of course, this will NOT happen by accident. Chances are that if you pursue your dream actively, you will find shorter paths to make them real via inter-related work teams with vast and different levels and areas of expertise. What really matters is that you really find people that talks their portion of the dream with the same passion you talk about it.
But... what about the so-demanded revenue? With US close to voting for President again, a very unstable financial forecast in "developed" and "developing" markets as well, the exponential growth in the need for energy and food... "You better stay where you are, if you are one of the lucky guys keeping your job today". And that can be partially right... it takes a lot of courage - same that I admit not having had to even explore if I have it in my DNA - to say: "I want something different, and I am going to pursue it".
Dreamers are quickly knocked down by many doors closing to their projects. And I still believe that you will never appreciate more what you did not have to work to get vs. what your forehead's sweat built for you. Only those that stand up and keep walking (no linkage with the famous comercial ;)) have the right to find what they did wrong and try to remake their steps towards success. All other that surrend to their failures and comfort themselves thinking they did "all they could have possibly done" deserve to fail, because the failure lives in your lack of self-awareness.
You, readers, might be saying: "What is happening with this guy? Does he want to see the world rising or falling?". I definitely want it rising, but moreover, I want a WORLD, not the leftovers unconscious guys allow us to live and try to enjoy. I am not a rebel without cause: my cause is fighting to help kids finding what is really enabling them to succeed in their lives, without being that the elimination of many work places because their thrist to revenue faster than the majority of the world. We, managers in the world, need to open our eyes to the chaotic re-distribution of wealth that is happening in the planet nowadays - just trying to compensate a bit the equation between those that have everything, and those that do not have everything -.
However, this is still a war against the prepared minds, in majority, with certain participation from the empirical knowledgers - which are also very respectable professionals, needless to say -. Economical wars are fought very far from the guy / girl that has more kids than they can really feed. What is more concerning, if the world is increasingly competitive these days, what these "outsiders" have demonstrated me every single day of my life, is that, giving them a base budget for them to participate in this so-called war, will turn them into poverty once again.
This is like "Energy preservation principle", from the great master Einstein. Seems that you need much more people taking right decisions to fight poverty vs. what you have today... at least in the current markets.
And this is the point - the one delivered with luxurious details in "The Blue Ocean Strategy", by Chan and Mauborgne -. For you to win, you do not need to be a small fish in a tank full of sharks. Maybe you just need to be a fish in your own place, far from the threaten of the sharks. They have no real need to eat you, but will never hesitate doing it if you allow them to reach you.
And blue oceans fairly often derive in new dreams made truth, creating employees for many that can share your vision and your passion, and in the end, giving you and them the so precious revenue we all want to get free from but few really can. We are SO MANY in this world, that almost every idea is liked by many.
Try Facebooking your concept with a brand new group you circulate for "fans" to join it... you will be AMAZED how much you can learn from others that will think you are crazy, stupid, lazy or any combination of the previous, but you will learn as well how to structure potential markets around people that think more or less like you, at least in small parts of their minds... the part where your dream can raise your kids, give you a comfortable home, and good money to help others in ways no one has done before.
I dream... with so many things that listing them will take a while. I begin to dream with a world where we have much less violence and fear from bullies and abused respectively. We do no need that. I believe all we need is following Ghandi's words one more time, every day, in every action: "You must be the change you want to see in the world".
I hope many of you can, sooner or later, use another famous quote from Ghandi, especially for the best of the human race "If being this insignificant I made all this, imagine what you all guys can do together". Get social, get real, get passionate... each day one step closer to your dreams and vision.
Over and out...