Be opinionated…
Better to be Hated than to try to be liked!
If you want to do anything worthwhile, be opinionated! Hold a strong view point! And be clear enough on the subject to where you can stand your ground and defend your opinion…
Many people shy away from coming across as being opinionated… It’s a lot easier to simply be a part of the “Agreeable Lot”!
May be that’s because you want to be liked… May be because, you are uncomfortable with arguments and confrontations! “What if I am not liked?”
Let me tell you this…. No one that has aspired to be liked has been able to create a mark in this world! Trying to please everyone makes you irrelevant at best in the long run.
Be clear on where you stand on things. It’s far better to be loved or hated and create a mark of your own than to be liked and play a second fiddle to everyone around you. It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself being walked all over!
Opinionated people are the ones that draw followers… believers. All the Great Leaders that the world has seen, including Spiritual Gurus and Prophets, have been opinionated. It’s them that you now like… believe and follow… It is them that have shaped who you have come to become!
It’s your choice as to where you stand… Your choice… if you bear the nerve to show the world that you in fact have a nerve!
A very good analogy of human train in “Being opinionated”; Sashank. At times, of late, I too sometimes feel I stand somewhere there. Thank you for giving the awareness.
Well described. One should be daring and firm to put his/her points but at same time unnecessary rigidness and arrogance also spoils the game.