We don't have to read the latest books, go to foreign countries or meet Nobel Prize laureates to be different. We are different already. We just don't allow ourselves to come across that way.

The chatter in our minds is already full of the most surprising and authentically gripping information. We are already real characters.

Children under seven are fascinating. Of course, they seldom do anything interesting in the outside world, but the honest, uncensored way they report on their inner lives guarantees their interest.

We were once fascinating, too, before we got so worried about looking normal. While we should...