There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

Jon Ronson
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Those who are not normal are able to find the most interesting experiences in life. They have an open mind and are able to explore their surroundings in different ways. Unconventional people are often the ones who do things others wouldn't think of doing. They often see possibilities where others see nothing but problems. They choose to live their lives without the constraints that many other people live within.

Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through The Madness Industry

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