Are you Crazy?

Are you being told by enough people that:-

• "you are crazy"?
• your idea "can't work, and even if it could, you couldn't do it"?
• your idea is "just another in a long list of hair-brained ideas"?
• Or "you are such a dreamer. Why don't you just get a real job, and stop dreaming"?

If you haven't heard these things at least 10 times in the last 12 months, perhaps you are traveling in the right circles, where ideas are encouraged. Or perhaps you've the good sense to keep your mouth shut around others who are caught up in more 'real' affairs?

If these resonate with you, perhaps you've taken the first step to joining a new 'tribe' - where ideas are not only welcome, but encouraged.

This tribe is also welcoming of the type of person that espouses new ideas, and new ways of thinking and solving problems.

"What tribe is that?", you ask? (I'll give you a clue about what it's not -politics)

It's the tribe that thinks that anything is possible, where the only limits you impose are your own, and pasts failures are celebrated. In days of old, this tribe would've been composed of 'Renaissance' men & women, such as thinkers, musicians, poets, craftsmen, inventors, and artisans.

Now it's the the domain of the start-up entrepreneur, the tech developer, the design guru or innovative marketer -people that believe that they can change the world, or their little piece of it, for the better. Often the primary motivator isn't money (though its a nice by-product).

These people may have both depth & breadth of knowledge & experience, (as with the Renaissance men of old) but not neccessarily.

However, this tribe cannot be joined by paying a monetary fee; membership dues are paid with something else -let's see if you can guess.

As George Bernard Shaw said long ago, "Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

Do you know what the price of admittance is yet?