Pioneers often:
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Are ahead of their vehicle, their way of getting to destination and have to wait for it to catch up.
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Do many things the hard way because the easy way either hasn’t been invented yet or is just, too easy.
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Don’t need to be the smartest people, just need to be willing to try a different path forward.
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Are often a threshold for other later adopters who are more “refined” than they are to take what the pioneer learned to the next level.
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Don’t recognize boundaries of what is accepted, which messes with the people who build their lives by those boundaries; i.e. are often challenged and misunderstood.
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Aren’t recognized until after they are long dead.
These axioms aren’t always the case, but are often the case, so if you love being a pioneer, it’s easiest if you accept these in trade for the joy of being on the bleeding edge of something.
