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Leadership Supremacy

Leadership is a skill that everyone should develop and cultivate. Being a leader does not necessarily have to mean being a manager or a politician – it could also mean being a thought leader, or even just being a great parent. The ability to inspire, command and guide others is something that is incredibly valuable and that can help you to accomplish more and even raises your confidence and self-worth.

In this guide, we’re going to examine what it takes to be a leader by looking at some of the most important traits that history’s greatest exhibit. Every leader is different and part of your journey to becoming one is going to be discovering your own ‘leadership style’. With that said though, there are still definitely some common traits that you can develop and some lessons we can learn from influential figures from history. And what you’ll find is that in some ways, the most important aspects of being a great leader are not what you would expect.

I hope this guide will change the way you approach leadership and thereby help you to drastically improve your own results.

1. A Great Leader Does Not Need to be Liked

Should a great leader be feared or liked?

The answer is that it doesn’t really matter. What’s most important is that you focus less on trying to be everyone’s friend and more on getting results.

Ultimately, a leader is someone who is trying to accomplish a goal by leverage the power of their team. If your goal is to increase turnover, then you are a good leader if you increase turnover. It doesn’t matter if you are liked along the way.

And sometimes you will have to make hard decisions or break bad news. You need to be willing to do that and not to concerned with how it makes you ‘look’. For example, if your superiors tell you that you and your team are going to need to work late, then you need to pass on that information and not make excuses. The temptation here is to complain along with your staff, to whine about how unfair it is and to make rude comments about the capabilities of your higher-ups.

All this does is to make you look unprofessional, to damage the enthusiasm of your team and to make everyone question the rules they’re being asked to follow.

This is one of the biggest problems with politics too. In order to get re-elected, a leader needs to make positive change in a short space of time so that the electorate can see the results.

The problem is that some projects only yield results over a long period of time and might even hurt the economy in the short term. Making those decisions would be political suicide and so our country is only ever putting out fires, never growing! This is something that a few famous leaders have managed to break away from. Arnold Schwarzenegger most recently discussed this and the value of being willing to make hard decisions.

You don’t have to be unpleasant, but be willing to let your reputation take the hit when it needs to!

2. A Great Leader Takes Responsibility

The reason you need to care less about how others see you, is that this then allows you to take responsibility. You might be passing on orders but for all intents and purposes those are still your orders. Own them and don’t apologize.

Likewise, when things go wrong because your team was working too slowly, you need to take the flack with your superiors and take responsibility. You were leading them, so if they didn’t get the work done, that’s your fault. Throwing your colleagues under the bus will again only make you seem weak and like someone who makes excuses!
What’s more important, is that by taking responsibility for targets not being met and mistakes being made, you are creating a safe ‘buffer’ for those beneath you. They know that they can make decisions and do what they think needs to be done and not worry about the possible repercussions. You’re probably getting paid more than them, so it’s your job to occasionally get shouted at!

This extends even further to taking responsibility for your own actions and decisions. Leaders make decisions quickly and with confidence and that’s not because they always have the answers, but because they’re willing to take the flack if their decisions prove to be wrong.

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Introduction

Email marketing has the potential to be the single most powerful marketing tool in your arsenal. Don’t take my word for it: if you check the blogs of any of the biggest ‘make money’ experts on the web, they will almost unanimously advise that email marketing should be front and center as part of your marketing and that it is more profitable than many other kinds combined!

But the fact remains that a lot of people aren’t going about their email marketing in the right way. Unfortunately, they have been misguided or they simply got the wrong end of the stick. As a result, they will spend an awful lot of time treading water and not making any progress. This is frustrating and it leads a lot of marketers to give up on this aspect of their marketing strategy.

This report is here to change that for you. Herein, you will find 21 incredibly powerful hacks that can instantly increase your engagement, your deliverability, your conversions and more. Are you ready? Let’s go!

1. Warm Up Your List

To avoid getting a bad ‘sender reputation’, it’s very important to avoid letting emails bounce or get delivered with very poor open rates. A good way to protect yourself from this fate is to first ‘warm up’ your IP address and mailing list. That means sending some emails from your account to only your most engaged members – maybe even friends and family. This will get you off to a good start which could stand you in good stead if things take a turn later on.

2. Keep Your Friends and Relatives On There

For this same reason, you should keep friends and relatives on your mailing list. They will (hopefully) always open them, which can help just a little in keeping your sender rep positive.

3. Send Emails Consistently

Don’t go long periods without sending emails and likewise, don’t go through phases of bombarding your audience. Let your recipients know what to expect and they’ll be less likely to complain or get frustrated with you.

4. Tease the Next Email

Once you have a consistent schedule, you can use this to your advantage by getting your recipients to eagerly await each new instalment! Do this by teasing what’s coming up and making it sound highly exciting.

5. Use Split Testing

Split testing means that you are going to send out two very similar emails, perhaps with subtly different subject headings, and then see which performs best. This will teach you the best practices to adopt and thus help you to optimize your process.

6. Use a Landing Page Builder

Something like Lead Pages or Thrive will help you to create more professional looking landing pages which will in turn help you to get more conversions.

7. Calculate How Much You Can Spend on PPC

Once you have a landing page, you can then use PPC (pay per click) advertising to direct traffic there. You now know how much you are paying (maximum) for each visitor. If you know what your conversion rate is and you can calculate the average number of purchases each subscriber makes (and how much profit comes from each one), you can choose the perfect budget for your ads and guarantee that you’ll stay in profit! Almost…

8. Offer a Good Incentive

A good incentive or magnet is something like a free ebook or a report. This can help to encourage people to part with their email address when they might otherwise have been on the fence and it will hopefully mean you buy some good will in the process!

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HIIT Workout

How to Create Amazing Home

HIIT Workouts

HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training and is currently one of the most popular health trends to hit the industry.

The basic idea behind HIIT is simple: you alternate between periods of high intensity, such as sprinting, and periods of lower intensity such as jogging. This is a form of training that allows us to burn more calories and enjoy better health benefits in a shorter space of time compared with many other types of training.

But while HIIT is a great tool for getting into shape, it’s important to recognize that it’s only as useful as the way in which you approach it. There are right and wrong ways to perform HIIT and a lot of people make the mistake of getting so excited with this new type of training that they forget to approach it in a structured and well thought-through manner.

In this guide then, we will be looking in detail at how you can go about making an amazing HIIT home workout that will help you to both build muscle and burn fat. You will see how to transform your body using this incredible form of training and you will learn some incredibly powerful strategies for getting even more from it.

HIIT: The Basics

Before we get into a lot of detail regarding how you can go about enhancing a typical HIIT workout, it first makes sense for us to recap on precisely what HIIT is to begin with, how it works and what makes it such a powerful and useful method for getting into shape.

What does alternating between higher and lower intensity actually do to the body and why is this so transformative for weight loss?

Essentially, when you engage in high intensity exercise, this is classified as anything where your heart rate is exceeding 90% of its maximum. That means you’re working as hard as you can and placing a massive demand on your body’s systems to supply energy.

That in turn means that you’re going too fast for your body to rely on the aerobic system – which is what it uses when you engage in regular ‘steady state’ cardio (cardio training where you jog at a relatively slow pace.

Because you’re going to fast, this means that you need a more efficient form of energy, which means the body has to use the stored glycogen and ATP that is already in your muscles. This can only last so long before you get a build up of metabolites and reach your ‘lactate inflection point’ at which you will be forced to slow down and return to your aerobic system.

What’s so great about this, is that you are now training your efficiency and your body’s ability to exert itself at maximal levels. Moreover, this will change the way your body reacts to regular aerobic exercise subsequently. Specifically, because you will have used up all the glycogen and ATP that’s immediately available to your muscles during the intensive exercise, you will find that your body becomes more efficient at burning calories that it gets from fat for the remainder of the workout. You then jog for as long as it takes to restore your glycogen and to remove the lactate in the blood, and can then return to exercise. This is not only great training for improving athletic performance (it can improve your lactate threshold, which in turn is incredibly useful for increasing your running ability); but it is also incredible for fat burning.

This is partly because you then continue the rest of your day with lower levels of glycogen after you have finished exercising. With these lower levels of glycogen, you’ll then be forced to burn fat even for regular activities such as walking around and climbing stairs. This then causes what is known as the ‘afterburn effect’– which leads to enhanced fat burn for the rest of the day following a HIIT workout.

For these reasons, HIIT is able to help you improve your athletic performance and fitness more than regular cardiovascular exercise and it is also able to help you burn a lot more calories.

Moreover, HIIT is also superior when it comes to convenience (because you can use a range of different exercises) and time – you can get a full HIIT workout in half the time or less compared with a regular cardio workout.

This is the power of HIIT, but you’re about to learn how to get even more from it!

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Internet Marketing Noob

Listen to This Audio to Learn the Only Type of Internet Marketing That Works

There are two main approaches to internet marketing.

One of them works.

The problem is that the vast majority of people who start out are going to get the wrong advice and they’re going to start off with the other type of internet marketing.

Just take a look at one of the big marketing forums like Black Hat World or Warrior Forum and you will quickly learn the predominant attitude toward internet marketing. A lot of people view this as a system that can be hacked, as something that you can win at through sheer volume and spam.

And that’s what results in some very low quality websites making their way onto the web.

You will have encountered the sort. These are the sites that are covered in adverts and that are shameless about promoting affiliate products. These are the sites that are filled with near-illegible writing, written in pidgin English and filled with repetitive keywords. These are the sites that don’t have any brand to speak of but rather just a title that also happens to be the keyword.

And guess what? Most of these sites are destined for failure.

In this free report, you’re going to learn why 80% of the community is wrong about internet marketing and how you can approach it differently with the best results.

Everything Wrong With Internet Marketing, In a Nut Shell

If you’re still not sure what I mean when I say that a lot of people take the wrong approach to internet marketing, then consider the example of the many different ‘link building’ services on the web.

Most of these services use the same strategy: they use a PBN and spun content. A PBN is a ‘private blog network’, which means that it is a network of blogs all owned by one individual or company. These blogs link to each other, which creates a false impression of authority in the eyes of Google and helps each blog rank more highly.

Spun content meanwhile, means that the PBN owners fill the content not with unique content but with content that has been repurposed to look unique. So in other words, they will take an article that has already been published elsewhere (sometimes without the owner’s permission) and will then swap words for synonyms. This means that Google can’t tell the content isn’t original and if all goes to plan, it will work just as well as something hand written.

Except it very rarely works.

What you end up with instead, is content that reads like so:

Hello to our great patrons today! This is the good web page all about the ways to get a great six packs!

In other words, it’s pretty much gibberish and no one will spend more than two minutes reading it. Very often, the PBN owners will say that the content has been ‘checked’ by a professional writer but you only need to look at the quality of the adverts in many cases to see that this will count for naught. Unfortunately, many of the SEO services offering these types of links don’t speak English as a first language and it really shows.

So, what happens if you buy these links? Simple: you communicate to Google that you are trying to spam its index. Google will see that you suddenly obtained 100 links in the space of a few days and that these links were all on poor quality sites that already linked to each other. It will see that the content surrounding your link is gibberish and if it suspects that you paid for the links (which you did), then you’ll risk having your site entirely removed from Google.

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Introduction

There’s a saying about how everyone has abs. It is TRUE. We are all born with abs regardless of our body shape. Fat people who have bulging tummies indeed have their abs secretly lying right beneath those fats.

Are you fat, with tummy or love handles (fats on waist)? Or are you skinny, with visible bony figure or maybe flabby tummy?

Whichever body figure you are donning now, are you sick and tired of it? You might have tried plenty of ways from food diet to exercises but nothing seems to work very well for you? All you want is just to look great, feel good and be confident. Am I right?

Here’s the good news for you! You already have a wonderful set of killer washboard abs! It might just be hidden underneath your fats or is still underdeveloped. The one and simple way is to get rid of the flab above by shedding off your fats, and tadah! It’s really as simple as that!

This article will teach you the extremely easy abs workout that will help you build the to-die-for sexy washboard abs!

Cardiovascular Exercise

Washboard abs, getting lean and losing weight are all tied into a consistent cardiovascular workout program.

Cardiovascular workout is an endurance exercise that strengthens the circulatory system by increasing your metabolic rate. By doing it over long stretches of time, it makes your heart beat faster and pump more blood through your system, bringing nutrients and oxygen to every cell.

Cardio workout can be simply explained as physical exercise of low to high intensity that depends on the aerobic energy-generating process of the exercise you do. It’s any activity that gets your heart rate raised to 50 - 75% of your maximum heart rate. Calculate your maximum with the formula 220 minus your age. For example, if you’re 25 years old, 220 - 25 = 195.

Cardio workout burns calories in your body. Most people do cardio training to lose weight, gain body mass, train stamina, etc.

You should do 30-45 minutes of activities like walking, running, biking or swimming daily 4-5 times per week. It takes about four weeks before you start to see the physical benefits of your diet and exercise program. You should notice immediate results in your energy level, overall mental alertness when exercising daily. Start off slowly if you are a beginner in cardiovascular exercises. A good way to get started is to walk or run with the following six weeks program:

Week #1 - Walk/run - 1 mile a day for 5 days a week
Week #2 - Walk/run - 2 miles a day for 5 days a week
Week #3 - Non-impact week - bike or swim for 20-30 minutes a day
Week #4 - Walk/run - 2 miles a day for 5 days a week
Week #5 - Walk/run - 3 miles a day for 4-5 days a week
Week #6 - Walk/run - 4 miles a day for 4-5 days a week

Note: week #3 is non-impact due to the possible number of strains/injuries that occur to legs (knees, shins, feet, hips) during the third week of beginning a walking or running program.

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Introduction

Becoming more productive is easier said than done for most people. With all the distractions of the modern world, it can be hard to really sit down and focus on one task. If you have been struggling with productivity and find yourself procrastinating tasks, you might be looking for simple ways to become more productive.

Here are the best 10 tips on how to stay productive and how to accomplish all your tasks so you have more time for yourself and the hobbies you want to try.

1. Make Routines

If you don’t have a routine, you need to create one to stay more productive. If you have a routine but find that it’s not working, you might want to consider making a new one. Remember that the routine that works for someone else might not be the best for you.

Try to make your own routine. You can incorporate tips and tricks from other people if you see something that might work for you, but don’t be afraid to change things up when you see something is not working.

It’s crucial to have a routine for the morning and night as these are the most important because they will start and end your day. In the morning, consider waking up earlier than you are used to. Rushing off to work might cause you to forget something you need to be more productive. Wake up a little earlier, just 15 minutes. Use the extra time to prep for work, pack a healthy lunch, or get a quick exercise routine in.

At night, make sure your routine fits in before bedtime. Going to bed at the same time every night will also ensure you are getting enough sleep. Bedtime or night routines should not be energetic as you want your body and mind to know that’s time for bed.

Consider drinking some herbal tea or putting the screens away and reading a book. You can also make sure everything you need for work the next morning is prepped and ready.

2. Make Use of Productivity Tools

There are countless productivity tools both digital and non-digital. If you want to be productive and make sure you are on track for all your work tasks, you need to make sure you are making use of them. If you aren’t tech-savvy, you can use written organizational methods like planners and desk calendars.

These work great for people that like to handwrite things rather than typing them onto a computer. Just make sure to bring your planner with you when you are at work or when you are making appointments.

If you are using non-digital tools, you might also want to use colorful pens or sticky notes to organize. You can also differentiate between work, school, and personal tasks by using different colors.

For those who are in the digital world for work or personal hobbies, you might find it easier to just keep everything digital since you almost always have your computer on hand. Your computer, smartphone, and tablet all have great productivity and organizational tools. Most of them are free, so you can make sure of them easily.

Same as with non-digital tools, you need a calendar to keep track of your tasks. The great thing about going digital is that you can sync them altogether from one device to another. This allows you to access your calendar from your phone, smartwatch, computer, and tablet.

If you have separate digital devices for work, you can also keep them separate by only syncing work devices to the other work devices. This allows you to keep a line between work and your personal life which can greatly increase productivity.

3. Don’t Resist Change

One main reason people can’t become productive is that they are reluctant to change things in their life. Changing a routine, a job, or many other things in life can be hard because it means letting go and stepping out of your comfort zone.

If you are having trouble with productivity though, something in your life needs to change so that you can start new habits. If you are afraid of doing a complete overhaul of your life, that’s perfectly okay and it’s a normal feeling to have.

Try only changing one thing at a time. Once you feel comfortable with the change, you can move on to another thing. You can also start with a small change first to ease into your new way of life.

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Introduction

If you feel like something in your life or body has been lacking lately, you might be wondering what you can do to start taking steps to become whole again. Part of feeling whole inside and out means that you need to master your health in several different areas including physically, mentally, and spiritually.

If you are lacking control of your life or aren’t sure how to get your next steps, you can use this guide for the 5 easiest ways to begin feeling whole both inside and out.

Take One Step at a Time

Sometimes to change your life, you might think you need to be taking big giant steps to become whole again. If you try to task and overwhelm yourself with big giant tasks, you will never be able to accomplish what you want. Instead, focusing on just moving in the right direction with one small step, followed by another small step.

For example, if you want to lose weight, you can start by exercising once a week and cutting sugar once a day. These changes are manageable and doable. If you try to tell yourself you will exercise every day and that you won’t eat sugar anymore, you might find yourself unable to make such large changes in a short period of time.

Once you are comfortable exercising twice a week, you can add on another day or two depending on your work and time constraints. You can also add on another day of not eating sugar and snacking.

Adding on small steps to other small steps is an easy way to eventually start making large and substantial life changes.

You also need to make sure you are not making excuses for not taking small steps. It’s easy to say you are too busy to make changes. If you keep making excuses for yourself, you will fall into a never-ending cycle of never making a change.

Make Goals and Routines

One part of being whole in your new changed life is to make sure you have goals that you are reaching for. For example, you might want to focus first on being whole spiritually. This means you need to have spiritual goals that you are working towards.

You could have a goal of connecting more with people of the same religion. This means you need to start making it a habit to attend services or connect on social media with people. You need to make sure you are taking steps towards creating the fellowship and social groups that you need to meet your spiritual goals.

You can also make routines centered around your goals. For spiritual goals, you can make a morning or nighttime routines that involve reading spiritual books or spending time in prayer. You can also create a routine that involves weekly fellowship or attending church services if you are part of organized religion.

No matter what your goals are, make sure you have at least one goal for your physical health, one goal for your mental health, and one goal for your spiritual health. You need to have one goal, but maybe even more, for each aspect so that you can master your health.

Habits and routines are much more powerful than you might think. Routines keep you grounded and allow you to fall into natural patterns that can benefit your health and lifestyle. Bad habits can have a powerful effect just as much as good habits though.

If you find yourself with bad habits, no matter how small they might be, make sure to break them immediately. You can try to replace them with good habits so that you are still filling the time, but with something better.

Eat Healthy and Sleep Better

Part of mastering your health, especially physically, is to make sure you are eating better and have better nutrition. Part of eating healthy means you need to incorporate fresher foods including vegetables, fruit, and lean meats. You might also want to eat more nuts, whole grains, and dairy.

One trick to remember is to try and stay around the border of the grocery store. Most of the time the borders of the grocery stores are where you find all the fresh food like meats, fruits, and vegetables. The inside aisles of the grocery store are where most of the processed food is located including junk food that you might want to stay clear from.

Eating better has more than just physical pros though. Having a healthy diet can make you feel better mentally as well. When you are nourishing your body, your mind is also being nourished. If you aren’t sure how to eat healthily, you can always sign up for meal service or find a few easy recipe cookbooks online.

You don’t have to make meals complicated to be healthy. When in doubt, just include a meat, some vegetables, and some fruit at the end of the meal. You can also add in some yogurt or cheese if you want dairy.

Another trick to follow is to get into the practice of intuitive eating. This means you are listening to your body as you eat. Many people have learned to avoid the signals their body has taught them such as when it’s telling you it’s full or when it’s hungry. Since our work schedules are often so busy, we get into the habit of ignoring what our body is telling us.

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Product Launch Ninja

The 7-Step Blueprint to Launching Your First Product

A product launch is a fantastic strategy that digital marketers can use to ensure that they truly maximize the sales potential of their digital products.

If you’ve spent time or money creating an ebook, an online course or a piece of software, then you need to ensure that it makes maximum impact when it goes live. If you just quietly release your product by adding a download link to your website, then you’re going to miss out on thousands of sales – not to mention the opportunity to work with affiliates, to build authority and to strengthen your brand.

A good product launch can take a poor-selling product and turn it into a bestseller. In this guide, you’re going to learn exactly what it takes to manage a successful product launch and to ensure that people can’t wait for your product to go live.

And we’re going to do it in just 7 simple steps…

1 Create Your Digital Product

Of course, the first thing you’ll need to do in order to launch a digital product is make one. Until you do this, you’ll have nothing to launch and that means you can’t expect to make much of a splash when you go live!

So what is a digital product? There are plenty of options here but some of the most popular choices for marketers are:

Ebook

Online course

Video series

Seminar

WordPress theme or plugin

Other software

Any of these will give you the ability to sell unlimited copies with zero overheads. That in turn means that you can recruit affiliates and share your revenue and it means that you’re minimizing the likelihood of a failure. Your product can’t fail when you only need to sell one item to breakeven!

Make sure that your product is unique, that it is original and that it has a real ‘emotional hook’ that will draw in your buyers. You can also help it to sell more by adding lots of extras, whether that means videos, access to a VIP area on a website or perhaps a free report.

Making the product means either writing an ebook in Word, creating a video with some filming and editing equipment, or outsourcing the entire process to a third party using a freelancing site like UpWork (www.upwork.com).

2 Tease Your Digital Product

If you have an audience already as a blogger or a social media marketer, then that means that you have a built-in customer base that you can market to.

That also means that you can start to build anticipation and interest for your product as early as possible. Don’t announce your product yet (we’ll come to that in a moment) but instead make it known that you have something on the horizon. You can do this simply by saying:

“Stay tuned because I have something very exciting to reveal in the coming weeks… it’s going to change everything!”

This allows you to follow the recommended sequence when it comes to hyping and selling a product: AIDA. That stands for:

Awareness
Interest
Desire
Action

Here, you are piquing interest and making your audience aware that something is going to be available in the future. That will make them more receptive when you eventually share more information and it’s also a good example of something known as ‘presuasion’.

This is also a particularly good time to ask your audience what they would like to see. This is one of the great things about a product launch – it gives you time to consult with your audience and to make sure that they actually are interested in the thing you’re about to spend ages developing. By getting your audience to vote on the kinds of things they’d like to see from you, you can get them more involved in the product (and thus more emotionally invested) and you can also verify that the audience exists so that you aren’t risking spending a long time developing a product that no one will go on to buy…

For that reason, this step two should actually start around the same time as step one. Once you begin work, let people know while simultaneously keeping the nature of that product shrouded in mystery.

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Being weird is not actually a liability. You can be weird and be successful with ease. There are many famous and well-known people who have embraced weirdness and have made it their own with great results. This is the power of being weird and being happy with your weird self.

If you want to be sure that you are being weird with all of your heart, you need to be fine with knowing that you will be different from the other people that you engage with on a daily basis. There are many people who are weird and just use it as fuel for their personal growth and you need to try and be this person for your mental health on a daily basis.

If you are looking for ways to inspire your journey into acceptance of your weirdness, you need to check out these stories of people who were weird and made it the reason for their success in life.

1. Milton Hershey

If you were told about someone who owned a candy company, you would automatically assume that they were not weird at all and were insanely happy just eating chocolate all day. This was not the case for Milton Hershey, who was actually a bit different and who did not always get along with people with whom he interacted. His unique vision for candy-making was not met with a lot of positive reactions and he had to return to his family farm and work on his recipe alone to get it right.

This journey into embracing his own unique vision made him a success and he was able to craft the candy that would be the backbone for a vastly successful, multi-million-dollar company that is still around today. Being weird is not always a problem when you are a creative person and letting other people ruin your creative vision through doubt can just harm you in the long run. The story of how the Hershey Company came to be should show you how much you can benefit from sticking to your own personal goals and dreams in the face of derision and criticism.

Creators who make new products and craft items that they are told cannot be made are almost always people who are considered to be weird. There is something in the social fabric that we weave that makes us want to identify people who go against the grain of the expectations of others as being odd or offbeat in dangerous ways. Being willing to struggle to create something that you can envision is a skill that weird people often have in spades and their fortitude over the years has led to hugely successful careers and the formation of wildly successful companies that are still around today.

If you have been worried about being weird or different and how it might impact your ability to get a job you love or open a business, you need only look at the story of Milton Hershey and how he managed to overcome criticism and a lack of support to found one of the biggest companies that have ever made candy in the world.

2. Mark Zuckerberg

While famous for many reasons these days, Mark Zuckerberg was a great example of a nerd who just could not quite fit in. While smart and successful in school, he was odd and not liked by his classmates overall. He struggled to make friends and get dates and his original idea for Facebook was to make sure that he could connect romantically with girls. He later expanded his idea to make sure that others who were socially awkward like him could find dates and connect in an easy way with girls that they struggled to talk to at school.

The vast success of Facebook could be considered an accident, but he was at the center of the development process of the site all along and has made critical decisions along the way that indicate that he knows how the social structure of online life works rather well. Being a unique thinker who was not engaging successfully socially with others in his age group, he managed to make a website that would launch many people into social health in ways that they could never have managed without his help.

Facebook is worth so much money these days that it should be no question to anyone that being odd and off-beat has delivered great results for Mark Zuckerberg. He is still unapologetically odd and has continued to stick to his own personal code that got him to the place that he is today. This has not always made him popular, but it has made him a huge success and that is what is more important.

3. Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer has taken a lot of heat over the years for being off-beat and doing comedy that no one else does. She has been told over and over again that she could be much more successful if she would do mainstream comedy, lose weight and commit to living in Hollywood like a normal person in her shoes. She has never once given in to this pressure and has continued to be unapologetically herself for years. She is willing to make fun of herself as well as other people when she is on stage and many people see her as a hero for those who usually do not get a voice in the public eye.

She has said many times that she could have been more successful over the years by changing who she was but that she loves to tackle the topics that no one else is talking about. Shedding light on social issues and the problems that women who are not thin and successful experience in life, she has made sure that she calls attention to the things that really matter. Some people might call her brash and harsh, but she has made sure that many people are aware of all kinds of social issues and concerns that others have been sweeping under the rug for years.