2009
Cover Bands Don’t Change The World
The image above is taken from a local coffee shop here in Atlanta, OCTANE.
Their smug tag-line brilliantly captures the tension of ANYONE attempting to do ANYTHING New, Creative, or Important :: If you can not Stand Out, if you are not Unique, you will be Irrelevant and ultimately Invisible.
We all know this, but often forget it when it comes to our blogs, bands, videos, design, and churches. There is a tempting tepid acceptance found in the middle. Everyone likes the middle. Everyone lives in the middle. Everything looks like Everything else in the middle . And Everything pretty much stays the same. That’s why the Middle changes nothing.
It’s those who are willing to Try, to Risk, to Put it all Out There, and ultimately to FAIL that eventually change things. Todd Henry says it best, “Cover Bands Don’t Change The World”. He’s right. Being the first to Copy doesn’t make me original or unique…it just makes me first to copy.
I want to CREATE DOTS, not just CONNECT THEM! To stand out, to risk everything, to fail boldly, and to CONTRIBUTE something fresh, new, stimulating, challenging…something UNLIKE anything else I can find in the middle.
YOUR TURN :: What in your life exists OUTSIDE the MIDDLE?
