{"id":564753,"date":"2022-08-15T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/?p=564753"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:52:36","slug":"the-power-of-being-different-inspiration-shot-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estherjacobs.info\/en\/blog\/the-power-of-being-different-inspiration-shot-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of being different – Inspiration shot August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The power of being different<\/h1>\n

Inspiration shot August 2022<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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I’ve always been different. A loner. A thinker. I haven’t always felt understood. Never really belonged anywhere. Didn’t\u00a0want\u00a0to belong. Maybe I told myself that’s what I wanted,\u00a0because I didn’t understand\u00a0the social ‘rules’ and how people interact with each other. Over the years I learned the ‘codes’, but they always felt strange to me, like I was learning the rules of a game I didn’t want to play anyway. When I tried to be like others I didn’t feel happy and besides, I never managed to blend in anyway.
\nLater I discovered how I could turn my differences and previous ‘weaknesses’ into my strengths. Now I can be completely my authentic self.
\nMany special people have felt like outsiders when they were young (and often still do today). What if we no longer see our authenticity as a ‘disability’, but instead discover its power and learn how to use it?
\nThis Inspiration Shot gives some tips that may also be useful for the kids around us (and our ‘inner child’).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Letter to my younger self<\/h2>\n<\/div>

A few years ago, I was invited to contribute to a book, giving my younger self the advice I so badly needed then. As an adult, I wrote everything I needed to know as a child.\u00a0Read my letter<\/a>\u00a0and maybe you’ll write one to your younger self too?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Survivor and bullying<\/h2>\n<\/div>

Recently I showed someone the final episode of my\u00a0Survivor<\/a>\u00a0experience (turn on the English captions).\u00a0The fact that everyone was ‘against’ me and treated me so unfairly still has\u00a0impact. The only reason I didn’t doubt myself, while 7 people ignored me or argued with me, 24 hours a day for 10 days, was that they started doing that from the first minute we met. If they had waited a little longer, they would have had me believe it was because of\u00a0me. Now I know it had to come from somewhere else. Of course the entire TV production is aimed to create conflict. I still don’t understand how a group can target a single individual aiming to ‘break’ that person.
\nHow do you deal with outsiders? Do you perceive them as threats? Are you curious about people who are different, or do you exclude them? Do you let yourself be affected when others react to you this way, or can you put it in perspective? What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n<\/div>

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