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Why Most Rebels Don’t Succeed

Shafeeka Hafeez
7 min readOct 8, 2019

If You’re A Rebel — Read On!

That’s probably the worst call-to-action ever to get a rebel to do something.

But here you are! :)

Thank you for being a little less rebellious.

Being a rebel myself, I think I know quite a bit about you already. Let’s see if you can tick this list off.

  1. You don’t like to be told what to do.
  2. You are a free spirit, you hate to be tied down.
  3. You have a mind of your own (which is great!)
  4. But your mind seems to have a mind of its own (this is where the trouble begins!)
  5. You love facing challenges and doing things not known to many people.
  6. But you hardly complete any of them.
  7. You tell yourself that you aren’t a difficult person (but deep down you know you are).

Sounds like you? Then let’s get started.

Not sure whether you’re a rebel? Then take The Four Tendencies Quiz.

The author of Better than Before and creator of the Four Tendency Framework, sums it up quite perfectly:

“Rebels resist all expectations, both inner…

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Shafeeka Hafeez

I write about startups building a more sustainable world | #SolveDifferent