Think Different

In this one minute Apple 1997 ad, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, it presents some iconic figures from the 20th century such as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, and Mahatma Gandhi just to name some, to symbolize the effect of thinking different. The people in this video were different and went against what was the daily life in their times. They thought differently and that made them reach the point they're at now. If they didn't do what they thought of doing, they would not be in the position they ended up in and some aspects of the world would not be alive today.

Dreyfuss talked about "thinking different" in the ad. He labeled the people that think different with words like "The misfits", "The trouble makers", and "The rebels" which implied that the perception of the people that think different from the rest of the world are crazy to be doing what they are doing. He also said "They're not fond of rules" and "They have no respect for the status quo" meaning you have to break rules and go against what's regular to be different.

People that think different stand out; the people in this video thought different and they obviously stood out. Some people may not agree with what they did or like them but they still end up giving them their attention. It's hard to ignore people that stand out. The ones that stand out move the world in a forward direction. Take Steve Jobs for example; he moved the world forward and is continuing to move the world forward with his revolutionary idea of the iPhone. Without people that stand out and think different, the world would be stuck in the primitive years.

Everybody says they want to stand out, including myself. Everyone has the potential to stand out but people are afraid to shine. I try my best to expose my light to the world and help the whole world shine a bit brighter but I am also shy of shining. I think different but I am too shy and scared of being judge for being different that I lock my light in a box in my attic so nobody can see. Standing in a crowd is so popular now-a-days that nobody really ever wants to stand out. I'm sure there will be a time when I do get the chance to take my light out of the box and show the world how bright I can shine and maybe I too can be like the people in the video...