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title: "Be Defiant. No One Succeeds Through Conformity."
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# Be Defiant. No One Succeeds Through Conformity.

![Be Defiant. No One Succeeds Through Conformity. - Being Unique by Jim Carroll](https://jimcarroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/being-unique-defiant-climbing-wall-of-conformity.jpg)

Somewhere there is a wall built entirely out of other people’s caution.

Climbing over it is the only way anyone has ever gotten anywhere interesting. That’s the case I make in *Being Unique: Why the Rebels, the Odd Ones Out, and the Crazy Ones Always Win!*

Get the book at [unique.jimcarroll.com](https://unique.jimcarroll.com). Available on Amazon stores worldwide.