Misfit Identity as Advantage

"Misfits are not born or made; they make themselves. And a stubborn opinionated child, desperate to be different and to be right, encoun- ters only smaller refractions of the problems he will always experience. And he carries the weight of that dislocation for ever."

"The root principle was to do things your way. It didn't matter how other people did it. It didn't matter if it could be done better. The"

"get stuck in mud - but it was a way. The trick is not to keep looking over your shoulder at others, or to worry, even as you begin a project, that it is not going to be the best possible example of its kind. As long as it works, and it is exciting, people will follow you."