Wayne Dyer tells a story from his grade school days. He came home and said his teacher had called him a "scurvy elephant."
They called the teacher to find out exactly what the teacher meant by that.
"Oh, that Wayne, he gets everything wrong. I didn’t say he was a scurvy elephant. I said he was a DISTURBING ELEMENT!"
Not to take anything away from Dyer, who has a lot of good things to say about psychology and personal growth, but a "disturbing element" he is NOT!!!
Dyer went on to observe that being a disturbing element is not necessarily a bad thing.
Is it a good thing to be the person who questions the culture’s holy writs, and insist that every form of authority has an obligation to justify itself?
Do you agree it’s just a really good thing to think for yourself in an informed and thoughtful way?
But society’s nonconformists do not usually have an easy time of it, at least not while they’re alive.
Are you an independent thinker?
In what way?
2007-11-18
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