A year ago people were writing about how they wanted to save the world. Fast forward to 2011. 223 people drop their resumes for XYZ (or other letters I will leave to your imagination) consulting firm, nearly 50% of the class. Changing the world, one consultant and investment banker at a time. Perhaps U.S. News and World Report should our "change the world-ness"...Humans are such amazing creatures. In the western world, despite our dogged lip service to independence and rugged individualism--the majority are overwhelmingly followers. We want to be a part of the herd. We don't want to stand out. We in fact, hate being the individual. We are so afraid to fail that everyone looks over their shoulder and then gets sucked into the vortex-of-no return of doing what everyone else is doing because you don't want to "not-have-the-option". But by definition, in choosing the option of "having-the-option" you close off the option of finding out what you truly want to do...
Business school is a funny place. We are here to supposively "learn business". And yet, of all the great business thinkers, entrepreneurs, innovators...they largely did not go to business school. They were individuals. They, in fact, stood out. They thought differently.
Individualism. I diagnose myself as suffering from the classic case of societal verbal diaharrea surrounding the concept. And yet, I still pursue it, despite feeling like a fish swimming upstream because I think true individualism is worth it. I already followed the herd. I did the investment banking gig. And honestly, I felt lost. Holding out to do something I'm passionate about, what makes me excited to get out of bed every morning about, is what I signed up for, and what I will continue to hold out for.
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