My jiujitsu coach says: "I give you the different ingredients, pick for yourself and cook your own jiujitsu".

Everybody has different strengths and weaknesses. Different backgrounds will make the most with different techniques. Every one of us will develop a different fighting style.

The same happens in real life: If you try to read what everybody, think like everybody, you will end up a copy of other people's brains. Develop your own brain by the things you interested in, and cook your own knowledge.

That's what will make you, you.

What makes you the best at your field is learning things outside your field.

The best history teachers are not the ones reading the same history books as everyone else and talking as everyone else.

The best teacher has the knowledge and other skills acquired in other fields. In the case of history, storytelling.

My year 11 history teacher Tony was a master at it. He gave us vivid lectures with passion and stories to take with us home. It was enjoyable. He did not rely in the way a classic teacher would. He brought his people skills and his passion for history together and merged it into this fantastic experience. That made him the best.

Good sports commentators default to boring known metaphors. The best one makes his own from what he read about food, demographics of anything he's interested in outside sports to make it unique.

Be knowledgable in your field, but don't forget to learn things outside of it for you to have your unique point of view and merging different topics.

The most remarkable analogies are the ones least related. Anything you do in life will give you unique superpowers in your passions. Use it.

Read what everybody else, think like everybody else, you will be like everybody else. Think different.

Karam Zarkitou