Be a Free Range Human by Marianne Cantwell

Author:Marianne Cantwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 2019-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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What to do with those Reasons Why Not

‘Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.’

richard bach

The ‘not for the likes of me’ myth

‘Sure, these stories are nice but there are a lot of reasons why I can’t do this. They had an advantage that I don’t have – it’s nice to dream but my situation is different; I have so many Reasons Why Not.’

Myth buster

In writing this book, I’ve spoken to some of my favourite free rangers who broke out of their careers to go and create lives most people dream of. At the same time, I’ve also been speaking more and more to the people who desperately want to do the same, but feel stuck.

The single thing that separates the ones who have broken out from the ones who haven’t is stupidly simple. It’s not money. It’s not age. It’s not some smart strategy they are yet to hear.

It’s their attitude to the Reasons Why Not.

I actually want to slap myself down for saying that. How clichéd is that? Have the right attitude and you’ll succeed?! What a load of rubbish. Except for the part where it’s true. Darn that reality.

I have spoken with Free Range Humans of all backgrounds: people with kids or without. Graduates from the top schools in the world and university dropouts. Careers spanning every industry you can imagine.

On paper, these people are wildly different from one another. But when it came to handling the Reasons Why Not you could map their words over each other:

Melissa Morgan: ‘Not knowing enough is not a reason why you can’t do this. I knew nothing about business when I started. I learned everything by myself. In today’s world no one can honestly say they can’t find information.’

Benny Lewis: ‘Any excuse you can come up with, someone has gotten around it. You could have no natural talent, it doesn’t matter – a lot of idiots do great things. You could be as poor as you can imagine – people do it. I tell people to look at the likes of Helen Keller who was a blind and deaf woman in the 19th century yet wrote books, spoke multiple languages, met two American presidents – imagine what she had to overcome, and tell me how you can come up with excuses why you can’t do something?’

Peter Shankman: ‘There’s always going to be a reason why you can’t do this. We all have bills to pay. Find ways around the barriers.’

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