Rejecting Authority: The Key to Staying True to Yourself

Crush conformity and let your story shine

Rick Martinez
5 min readNov 8, 2024

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When you obey authority, you’re often forced to play by someone else’s rules.

Rules that were designed to control, conform, and keep you in line. But what happens when you do that?

You lose yourself.

And if you’re here, reading this, it’s likely because you already feel like part of you is slipping away. You’ve followed the “right” path — listened to advice, stayed in your lane — and now your story, your uniqueness, is buried beneath the noise of what everyone else thinks you should be.

But here’s the thing: rejecting authority might be the only way to stay true to yourself, especially when writing your book.

Conformity Equals Mediocrity

Conforming is easy.

It’s safe.

It feels like a warm blanket you wrap yourself in when the world starts shouting at you to fall in line. But here’s the problem — when you conform, you blend in. You become one of the many.

The mistake most writers make is thinking that sticking to the rules makes their writing better. It doesn’t. It makes it boring.

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Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez

Written by Rick Martinez

* Professional ghostwriter and USA Today Bestselling author * My mission: revolutionize the world of non-fiction writing. * Helping folks write their book

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