20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates Living an Exceptional Life from an Average One

It came effortlessly to Steve Jobs -- and it's something we all should hug.

Steve Jobs set exceptionally high expectations. He was wanted things done a certain way, challenging other people to work harder, work longer, and sometimes to do more than they thought was probable. Steve Jobs had high standards. He was wanted things to be done his way.

But he also trusted in the power of taking an anomalistic path -- of doing things that other people generally don't consider.

When you grow up, you tend to get said that the world is the way it is. Your life is to reside your life inside the world, to try not to plunk into the walls too much: Try to have a good family life, have fun, save up a little money... but that's a very limited life. Life can be plenty broader once you discover one easy fact: Everything near you that you call "life" made up by people that were no smarter than you -- and you can alter it. You can impact it ... the minute you understand that you can change it, that you can impasto it, that's maybe the most important thing. To shake off this preposterous notion that life is there and you're just going to reside in it -- against hug it, variation it, promote it ... and make your mark up it.

If you hug that fact, what happens? You materialize you can like yourself. Once you had to wait: to be taken in, to be developed, to be elected ... to somehow be "unlocked." Not anymore. Access is almost unlimited; you can be connected with almost anyone through social media. You can be published your own work, dispense your own music, make your own products, allure your own funding.

You can be done almost anything you want -- and you don't need to wait for someone else to unlock your talents.
The only thing occupying you back is you, and your compliance to try. You understand that success is unavoidable only in hindsight. Read stories of successful people and it's simple to ponder they have some elusive "something" -- ideas, talent, drive, skills, creativity, etc. -- that you don't have. It's simple to turn back on a path to majesty and assume that every vision was clear, every plan was accurate, every step was observed flawlessly, and remarkable success was a forgone perfecting. It wasn't.

Success is never ensured. Only in hindsight does it appear that way. If you're willing to do the work hard and endeavor, who you are is more than sufficient. Never measure yourself contra other people. Pick a goal and measure yourself contra that goal. That's the only compared that matters. You materialize that success will come from doing things -- or even just one thing -- that no one else is desiring to do. Even if they're easy. Even if they're very small.

After all, if you do what everybody else does, you'll only acquire the results other people acquire.
Every day, do a few things otherwise from the people around you.
After a week, you'll be extraordinary. After a month, you'll be individual.
After a year, you will be anomalous.
And you'll have done so on your position.