Another quote from Albert:
"Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing."
I usually dislike statements that generalise and oversimplify human behaviour. But this sentence rings true even after I have thought about it for a while. Even my personal eccentricities have a certain degree of social acceptability about them, and just serve to make me stand out a bit more from the crown. But not to the extent that I am perceived as a weirdo.
But then what about the weirdos? Are they the exception to this statement? And yet the few 'weirdos' I can think of tend to belong to a small group of like-minded people. I'm sure that most of us don't want to be lonely. And one way to avoid that is to fit in with a group and accept their criteria as a measure of your accomplishments.
Maybe!
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