Why do you always have to be different?

by Sam Schoen

Why do you always have to be different?

Why do you care so much about this presentation?

Why do you think it's that deep?

Why did you dress up so much?

Why would we do that, no one else is?

These are questions people have been asking me my whole life. I’m sure they have been asked to you too.

Thinking about it now, I have never consciously tried to be different for the sake of it. I am just being me and if that is different, so be it.

That is what creativity means to me. It is seeing the bigger picture.

VOJ stops most people right away. The first right answer is to just do what everyone else is doing- it's easy, there’s no risk. 

But the ability to have the understanding to keep going to that second right answer, that is creativity. 

The second right answer is … being genuinely YOU. Always.

Year: sophomore

Major: Human Capital Management & Leadership + Entrepreneurship

Hometown: Toledo, Ohio

Fun Fact: I have 8 pet chickens

Keywords: Authenticity, Risk, True Value