A-Z of Soft Skills: N is for Novelty

 Novelty is the quality of being new, original, or unusual.

Each one of us is novel--like a grain of sand or a snowflake, to use metaphors I've used before, but in living together in families and communities and societies, we tend to favour "likeness" and "conformity" to novelty.

However, it is our novelty that keeps us alive and evolving. We can only change and make new things when we need the new. We can only create and innovate when we want the novel and original.

Think about it. This is your life. It is unlike any other. It is the only life you have. Only you can live it. What could be more novel and original and unusual than your life?

Learn to live this life as new everyday. 

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