Become an Outlaw

Modern society is terribly ill-suited for creating happy people that have any sense of agency. From our earliest days we're bombarded with shoulds, have tos and supposed to dos. Life is described to us as something that happens to us as opposed to something full of opportunity.

• You should get a college degree, no one will hire you without a college degree.
• You should make money so that you can pay the bills.
• You should learn to work hard now or you'll never survive college
• You should make money so that someone will marry you.
• You shouldn't do that, that's too risky.
• It might be safer to do this instead.
• You can't do that.
• That's way too hard.
• You'll never be able to do that.

And one of my personal favorites:

• You're happy now but just give it five years, you'll hate each other!

When you unpack the pre-suppositions hidden beneath all of these statements, you realize how unimaginative and lazy they really are.

Why do we default to limits? Why can't we default to the limitless? Our words matter DEEPLY.

All the time I hear stories from the artists we serve about how someone told them they could never be an artist and so haven't touched a paintbrush in decades.

Let's start speaking hope and encouragement for the future into each other's lives. Let's change our default from 'that could never happen' to 'how can we make it happen together?'

Quit letting life happen to you. Quit letting other people impose their limited understanding of life onto you. Life is what you make of it. Your hopes, dreams, and goals are PLACED there for a REASON and that reason is NOT to be stomped out by people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Your hopes are there for you to pursue relentlessly with all the bravery and creativity you can muster. And they aren't static. They're constantly evolving. Sometimes they don't work out. Sometimes you realize that dream isn't so good for you after all.

But it's better to chase after something with purpose than to drift away in a sea of gray purposeless muck.

What is Outlaw Logic?

Outlaw Logic is a paradigm that refuses to settle for the supposed to-dos, the shoulds and the have tos. It means choosing a path for yourself and traveling it with intention. It means trusting the process. It means accepting the highs and lows - the good, the bad and the ugly. It means encouraging your child's wild dreams instead of treating them like they're too stupid to figure it out through trial and error.

• Outlaw Logic find a way to paint masterpieces with your tongue after becoming paralyzed like Joni Erickson Tada.
• Outlaw Logic finds a way to build a billion-dollar philanthropic empire starting alone from NOTHING like Jimmy Donaldson.
• Outlaw Logic finds a way to survive child sex trafficking and inspire millions of other victims like Anneke Lucas.
• Outlaw Logic completes a triathlon in Antarctica like Anders Hofman.

It means internalizing the fact that life IS what you make of it - as long as we quit being too lazy and afraid to use our imagination. We've all got a little bit of Outlaw Logic in us - let's realize its full potential