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In today’s episode of The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about daring to be different in all that you do, for your future happiness. In a world where most people seem to be doing the same things, being different can be a good thing. It can help you stand out from your competition and lead to you being very successful in future. In today’s episode, Steli and Hiten talk about What it means to be different, why being different takes courage, how being different pays off in future and much more.  Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 About today’s topic. 00:33 why this topic was chosen. 00:43 Steli’s initial thought on Hiten’s tweet. 01:39 What prompted Hiten’s tweet. 03:00 Why being different takes courage. 05:46 Why Hiten used to word “dare”. 05:05 What it means to be different. 08:39 How being different pays off in future. 09:07 Why Hiten chose the phrase “future happiness”. 10:34 How being different helps you express yourself better. 3 Key Points: It’s ok to be different.Being different takes courage.Different means going against something [0:00:00] Steli Efti: Hey everybody, this is Steli Efti. [0:00:03] Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah. And today on The Startup Chat we're going to talk about a tweet of mine that was very impulsive, not in a bad way. And I'm tweeting a little bit more than I was over the last few months and the tweet said "dare to be different in all that you do for your future happiness" and Steli, it must have like struck a nerve or did something cause we're talking about it today and Steli suggested it. So yeah, it's about being different and daring to be different. So how did you take it? What did you think? [0:00:39] Steli Efti: Well, the first thing I thought was what prompted this? (laughing) When I see a tweet of this nature, especially with somebody that I know like you, I'm like, huh, I'm curious what... Typically I would assume it's a conversation that inspires this with you, but who knows? It could be a million different things, but the first thing that it made was make me go, huh, this is interesting. I wonder if there's a backstory or there's a thought or a conversation that made Hiten want to send this message out to people. [0:01:14] Hiten Shah: Yes. [0:01:15] Steli Efti: What prompted this? [0:01:17] Hiten Shah: Yes, so there's no exciting story or a conversation. Some of the tweets definitely are part of a conversation. I think this one was just, I think I was thinking about it. And I was thinking about what makes people exceptional? And what causes them to, achieve things, basically? And I think one of the factors that if you start looking at a bunch of patterns of people that have achieved exceptional stuff, whether in business or personally, is they were different, there were different, something was different. They did something different. And in that process, thinking about that, I just came to this thought and I wanted to inspire myself, but also others that, hey, it's okay to be different. And I think it comes with happiness too because if you're not different, you're likely conforming to whatever, society's expectations are or your own expectations are based on society and other people of what you should be. [0:02:34] Steli Efti: So one of the reasons that I love this tweet is in the details, right? And so let's break them down one by one because it's two statements basically right there. I mean it's one statement, but it's like two sentences. So it's broken in two parts. The first one, the thing that I found interesting in my mind, the thing that stood out was the choice of the very first, word which was "Dare", right? You didn't say "aim to be different" or "be different in all that you do", "aim to be different in all that you do", "You should be different in all that...