chapter 9 ReConnect Principle 4 —  Disrupt

It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly — not so much the good things but the bland things — the ordinary things — the weaker things get repeated — the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

— Professor Robert Adamson, Scottish philosopher

Disrupters understand the value of not accepting the bland and the boring.

Think about any great mind of the past hundred years. Einstein. Oppenheimer. Margaret Sanger. Logie Baird. Gates. Jobs. Marissa Mayer.

Every one of these people took the road less travelled, enabled change and disrupted the status quo.

They were not satisfied with the traditional, the ordinary and the everyday. They questioned what ...

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