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2018 in Books #1 : Outliers

My membership at the Evanston Public Library is my best-worst decision. Best, because I now have e-books delivered right into my Kindle without having me trudge in snow to borrow or return a book and the worst, because it is going to make me lazy and unfit.  Cut to the chase, Outliers has been a good start to 2018. At a modest 300 odd pages, Malcolm Gladwell writes a deeply researched and critically analysed account of success stories that we know of.  | The biggest takeaway you can get from Outliers  is the "other side" of stories, which are often ignored for the sake of glorification of the achievement. | It was enjoyable to see how tiny, seemingly inconsequential factors can help a person go a long way. A popular example the book talks about is Bill Gates' rise as a billionaire when he was a college dropout.  Treating his story superficially has led to popularizing the opinion, "hey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were college drop outs
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Memes and Acceptance

We have millions of memes. So many people love creating humour on circumstances, others and themselves that we see and share every single day. It's an explosion that here's to stay.
The latter is important here. A few years ago, eating a lot of food, being hungry all the time, being sleepy and disinterested, getting bored were almost signs of laziness and impolite behaviour. Today, we seem to be celebrating them as a result of memes. And because of this, I feel we are more accepting of ourselves and what we thought were our flaws.
We celebrate the fact that we oversleep. We are proud to be lazy, bored and disinterested. We're content with being annoying Grammar Nazi's and geeks. And in the process of sharing these memes with people, tagging them in these, saying "this is SO YOU" I feel we've become more accepting of others characteristics, where idiosyncrasies are no longer meant to creep someone out but to be flaunted. We laugh at ourselves more and this seems to boost our morale. I'm going on a limb here but maybe they help in self awareness for some too.
It doesn't matter anymore whether you're a nerd or skinny or a judgemental prick or a nihilist - there are PAGES of memes for each kind. And somewhere in all these, I'm sure you will find those that relate to you and make you feel comfortable and confident of yourself and others. In all probability you find these memes and share it letting everyone know. It's a transition from main aisa kyun hun to main aisa hi hun.
I cannot neglect the fact that this change is probably just restricted to social media. Not everyone could be happy about themselves even if they post some memes on it.
Nevertheless here's to the hope of memes bettering the world and the human race. Cheers!
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