How did you help yourself break out of the 'norm' and go into the uncharted part of the human life? You seem to have realized a special attitude towards the tried and tested very young in your life and would love to know what factors helped you be brave enough to live up to the ideology.
the fact that i never really fit in pushed me that way. i spent a lot of time learning music (only on instruments) at a very young age, and avoiding anything 'popular.' then sometime when i was a teenager i just snapped and said wait a minute, what's popular? more specifically, where is the real cutting edge? i was a little disappointed to realize that most of what's popular is usually actually not the cutting edge ... but i began searching for the cutting edge, whatever that should be. and i sort of tumbled into a huge search, which finally cumulated in the realization that because infinite universes do and can exist, they have to all be right. and that exploded into some heavy ideas about what this all means and why we're here. i've spent my entire life since then trying to figure out how to explain that. what makes that challenging is the fact that the only way to actually explain it is to prove that it has already been explained