…only the popular way.<\/p>\n
To do something only for the sake of it being the popular way, even though it otherwise doesn’t fit your best interest or desires is not a good reason to choose that route at all. My whole life I’ve been told that I was doing it wrong, that things must be done a certain way, that they’ve always been done that way. Luckily, I’ve always resisted giving into such notions and limited ways of thinking.<\/p>\n
I love to play pool. I also happen to be pretty good at it. And as an adult, playing pool at the local bar, is probably where I continue to hear that lovely four-word statement the most:<\/p>\n
“You’re doing it wrong.<\/em>”<\/p>\n When I hear that inevitable remark from my opponent in regards to the way I hold the pool cue, I just let out a small and kind smile, but no verbal response. I generally then go on to beat their ass in pool and any comments about how I hold the cue seem to disappear :). Don’t get me wrong, there’s often an old-timer that schools me pretty bad, but I still earn their respect. It just reminds me that no matter how I choose to play, I need more practice. You never stop practicing.<\/p>\n I’ve practiced holding my cue the “right” way and I’ve always found it uncomfortable and restricting, lowering my accuracy, not improving it. While I have the choice of how I’d like to hold my cue, I once played a one-armed man who didn’t and guess what? I couldn’t beat him. No joke. Whether you find a way that you prefer even if it goes against the grain, or whether you have no choice, you can still excel at it.<\/p>\n Our culture is very quick to adapt to new ways of doing things. Often, for years, there’s a way to do something, say communicate, that’s considered the only and best way to do it… until it’s not.<\/p>\n Don’t be afraid to be different, to challenge tradition, to do something the “wrong” way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …only the popular way. To do something only for the sake of it being the popular way, even though it otherwise doesn’t fit your best interest or desires is not a good reason to choose that route at all. My whole life I’ve been told that I was doing it wrong, that things must be … There is No Right Way Or Wrong Way to Do Anything<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[402,287,403],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","tag-methodology","tag-psychology","tag-thinking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}