Comments on: How I’m learning to break the rules http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/ connect with spirit. connect with others. connect with yourself. change the world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas Edward Mrak http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-6821 Thomas Edward Mrak Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:31:56 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-6821 Yes, we all are. Get good grades or you'll clean toilets for the rest of your life. If you don't go to college you'll work at McDonald's. If you fail you're bad. You need ____ in order for people to accept you, and if you don't have ____ you deserve to be an outsider. Fine. I tire of being told who to be by people who hate themselves, which clearly a lot of the "play it safe" people do. I'd rather be an out-there college dropout musician with entrepreneurial tendencies than be a cube-dweller who hates his job because he is so weak he needs to please his boss and mommy and daddy. Yes, we all are.

Get good grades or you’ll clean toilets for the rest of your life.
If you don’t go to college you’ll work at McDonald’s.
If you fail you’re bad.

You need ____ in order for people to accept you, and if you don’t have ____ you deserve to be an outsider.

Fine.
I tire of being told who to be by people who hate themselves, which clearly a lot of the “play it safe” people do.

I’d rather be an out-there college dropout musician with entrepreneurial tendencies than be a cube-dweller who hates his job because he is so weak he needs to please his boss and mommy and daddy.

]]> By: Zengarden - keep it simple http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3847 Zengarden - keep it simple Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:27:34 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3847 [...] I learned to break the rules. [...] [...] I learned to break the rules. [...]

]]> By: Revolution and Evolution (part 1) | Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Revolution and Evolution (part 1) | Johnny B. Truant Wed, 12 May 2010 11:44:12 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3654 [...] And when it dawned on me that what held me back was fear of doing something arbitrarily “wrong” in the eyes of the world, I learned to break the rules. [...] [...] And when it dawned on me that what held me back was fear of doing something arbitrarily “wrong” in the eyes of the world, I learned to break the rules. [...]

]]> By: What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3409 What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:48:16 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3409 [...] of entrepreneurs in this last year. And entrepreneurs are wackos. They’re not normal; they break the rules; they’re shit out of their minds. You spend enough time around people like that and suddenly [...] [...] of entrepreneurs in this last year. And entrepreneurs are wackos. They’re not normal; they break the rules; they’re shit out of their minds. You spend enough time around people like that and suddenly [...]

]]> By: I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3186 I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:22:13 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3186 [...] slip into a lot of the themes I’ve been writing about lately, about doing something crazy and breaking the rules and being abnormal. I’ll let you make that connection for yourself, but… you know. [...] [...] slip into a lot of the themes I’ve been writing about lately, about doing something crazy and breaking the rules and being abnormal. I’ll let you make that connection for yourself, but… you know. [...]

]]> By: Is this another rule I should break? : Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3108 Is this another rule I should break? : Johnny B. Truant Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:33:37 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3108 [...] I’ve written a few times lately about my revelations re: seeing through the bullshit and kind of noticing that the emperor who is supposedly standing there wearing his expensive new clothes actually has his ass hanging out. It’s occurred to me lately that society tells us that we’re supposed to do a lot of things that kind of really don’t apply to all of us, all the time, and that sometimes (maybe often), it’s okay and it’s cool and it’s best to break those rules. [...] [...] I’ve written a few times lately about my revelations re: seeing through the bullshit and kind of noticing that the emperor who is supposedly standing there wearing his expensive new clothes actually has his ass hanging out. It’s occurred to me lately that society tells us that we’re supposed to do a lot of things that kind of really don’t apply to all of us, all the time, and that sometimes (maybe often), it’s okay and it’s cool and it’s best to break those rules. [...]

]]> By: My Thanks to JT The Freak http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3095 My Thanks to JT The Freak Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:54:33 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3095 [...] wandering landed me on the Freak Revolution website and a post there titled “How I’m learning to break the rules” by Johnny B Truant.  I found a note about Johnny at the bottom of his post that said he would [...] [...] wandering landed me on the Freak Revolution website and a post there titled “How I’m learning to break the rules” by Johnny B Truant.  I found a note about Johnny at the bottom of his post that said he would [...]

]]> By: You’re not normal : Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3024 You’re not normal : Johnny B. Truant Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:17:15 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3024 [...] written a lot recently about the topics of being crazy, doing something crazy, and perhaps using Crazy Straws. But then, yesterday, three things happened [...] [...] written a lot recently about the topics of being crazy, doing something crazy, and perhaps using Crazy Straws. But then, yesterday, three things happened [...]

]]> By: Johnny B. Truant http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3022 Johnny B. Truant Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:04:03 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3022 It's weird because now, the floodgates are open. I just keep doing crazier and crazier shit. Once you break through the initial wall, disobeying becomes simple, and pretty freeing. .-= Johnny B. Truant´s last blog ..<a href="http://johnnybtruant.com/three-awesome-things-ive-discovered-that-that-you-should-absolutely-check-out/" rel="nofollow">Three awesome things I’ve discovered that that you should absolutely check out</a> =-. It’s weird because now, the floodgates are open. I just keep doing crazier and crazier shit.

Once you break through the initial wall, disobeying becomes simple, and pretty freeing.
.-= Johnny B. Truant´s last blog ..Three awesome things I’ve discovered that that you should absolutely check out =-.

]]> By: Jennifer "Scraps" Walker http://connection-revolution.com/learning-to-break-the-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-3021 Jennifer "Scraps" Walker Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:51:27 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=3363#comment-3021 LOVE the way you describe yourself as a freak-in-training. As someone from that same world, it's making a lot more sense why, in the last 5 years or so, as I've begun to live my life on my terms (even if it's by baby steps), I've been drawn more and more to those who would be considered freaks (in the best possible sense of the word, of course!). The joke that I was the token conservative in the group was true but now, at least, I realize it was important that I was there, that I was making those connections (which I've sadly let lapse) and looking for the crack in that shell I was raised in, that I chose in many respects, to find the folks I wanted to be around. (*the rambling about choosing follow the path of the duck in the shell or trade the feathers for a prehensile tale has been redacted... it, apparently, only made sense in my head*) .-= Jennifer "Scraps" Walker´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/randomactscomics/PnHx/~3/T4oUT-8KMvQ/" rel="nofollow">Doctor, Doctor 18</a> =-. LOVE the way you describe yourself as a freak-in-training.

As someone from that same world, it’s making a lot more sense why, in the last 5 years or so, as I’ve begun to live my life on my terms (even if it’s by baby steps), I’ve been drawn more and more to those who would be considered freaks (in the best possible sense of the word, of course!). The joke that I was the token conservative in the group was true but now, at least, I realize it was important that I was there, that I was making those connections (which I’ve sadly let lapse) and looking for the crack in that shell I was raised in, that I chose in many respects, to find the folks I wanted to be around. (*the rambling about choosing follow the path of the duck in the shell or trade the feathers for a prehensile tale has been redacted… it, apparently, only made sense in my head*)
.-= Jennifer “Scraps” Walker´s last blog ..Doctor, Doctor 18 =-.

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