If you’re an outlier who does things differently, you’re more likely to be asked by people around you to do things “normally,” like other people.
On the normalcy graph, if you’re the only one lying above or below the curve, you stand to be deleted because you cause an anomaly.
There are very few who try to appreciate, understand, or explore the anomaly. Instead, we just try to delete that person by choosing to ignore him or her.
What’s interesting is that if the anomaly is below the average on the graph, we tend to have sympathy for that person. We judge the person to be weak and might want him or her to go to a doctor or consultant to level up to average.
On the other end, with an anomaly who is high above the average, we either try to pull that person down to the average, or we tend to ignore that person completely (since we feel that understanding that anomaly is far beyond our reach).
We delete so many anomalies in our lives because we want to stay safe, stay in our comfort zone, and stay average.
If you want to excel in your career, have a successful business, or make a useful impact within your society, you need to spend time understanding anomalies and outliers.
Studying the below average anomalies helps you acknowledge the common strengths you have. Whereas, studying the above average anomalies helps you understand the missing pieces for you to be above average—an outlier yourself.
Above average anomaly = an outlier.