Creative ways to be obvious and get more attention.

If you want to stand out from the crowd as an individual:
You will not do it with clothing.
You will not do it by swearing or being loud or talking clever talk.
You will not do it by pretending you are something that you are not.

You will not do it by being intelligent and interesting.
There is only one way to stand out from the crowd.
There is only one true way to be an individual, a creative person. You must be honest to yourself. Only when you are true to your own heart can you be a true expression of your unique character.

Your character is unique to you. You don’t have to find yourself or redesign yourself. To be that someone special, you only have to relax and be yourself.

Even the so-called rebels in society, conform to dress standards, speech standards and even thought standards that are common to that particular group. They conform to the requirements of the group mind. There is nothing wrong with doing that, if it suits your needs.

You might belong to a club or work in an environment that requires restrictions on your personality. You might be a husband and father in the evening and a police officer in the day. Very different roles need to be played out. If you understand that your work is only a game that you are willing to go along with for the sake of a regular income, then that is fine. However, the real you, needs to express and this should be the situation in your home environment.

I have a black-belt in Tae Kwon Do. That means I have to be sensible and a good example while I am in the school environment. I am willing to compromise parts of my personality when I am in the training hall, in exchange for all of the other benefits I gain. If I want to be my easy-going relaxed self, I am in the wrong place. If I want to make jokes and be noisy, I am in the wrong place.

If you want to be an individual, you need to practice being yourself, initially by yourself. Discover who you really are. it is no big deal, it is usually simply a matter of being more honest with how you feel about different circumstances. Instead of suppressing your feelings. let them out and understand what you really feel and who you really are.  And… you do not have to be nice all of the time!

You cannot expect to be an individual, when you are sharing a group environment. Do your creative thing on your own! Your creativity should not be at the expense of others.
If you find that your job or your social life or your club, stifles your creativity, you can do either of 2 things:
1. Leave and be creative somewhere else or
2. Accept the way that the game is played and enjoy the benefits you gain!

You probably have to conform to be able to earn your income. You even have to conform to enjoy yourself. When you go to the movies, you have to suppress your natural urge to talk and comment on the show. When you are playing a sport, you probably have to suppress your natural urge to bend the rules slightly every now and then!

Social norms such as manners, traditions, families and behavior in public places, force you to change the way you behave. Laws make you compromise. Your bodily functions make you compromise. Driving down the highway constantly requires adjustments and compromise. Walking down the street requires certain acceptable behavior.

In the outer world, for most of the day, you are not free to be yourself. However, in your inner world it is safe to be yourself all of the day.

It is not easy to be true to yourself. Often you will feel foolish when you go against society just so that you can express your personal truth. However, take it one little step at a time and you will find that before long you have become so much more of yourself that you will be constantly confident with who you are!

If you want to be creative, then the real you needs to get out and play a lot!