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	<title>I Am Nick Armstrong &#187; I Am Not A Thought Leader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought Leaders, by definition, lead the average folk to the promised land and celebrate how much they know by imparting it on others. I'm more of a Thought F*ck-Up.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamed/327939900/" target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1259" style="margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;" title="Desert Leader" src="http://www.iamnickarmstrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/desertleader.jpg" alt="Desert Leader" width="375" height="500" /></a><strong>I am not a <em>Thought Leader</em>.</strong></p>
<p>Thought Leaders, by definition, lead the average folk to the promised land and celebrate how much they know by imparting it on others.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m more of a <em><strong>Thought F*ck-Up</strong></em>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re the people who look at the so-called &#8220;average&#8221; folk and realize they&#8217;re much more wonderful / scary / devious / smart / amazing than Thought Leaders give them credit for.  We see those &#8220;average&#8221; folk and realize they individually have much more to teach us than we could ever impart on them.  We know for a fact most &#8220;average&#8221; folk are anything but average and we celebrate them for who they are.</p>
<p>A Thought F*ck-Up follows a lonely path set forth by the FCC&#8217;s definition for obscenity.</p>
<p><strong>You know it when you see it; it&#8217;s usually in the opposite direction everybody else is heading&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Some great Thought F*ck-Ups I look up to:</p>
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<li><a title="Kevin Buecher" href="http://walkfortcollins.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Kevin Buecher</a></li>
<li><a title="IttyBiz" href="http://ittybiz.com/" target="_blank">Naomi Dunford</a></li>
<li><a title="Daydreaming Idly" href="http://daydreamingidly.posterous.com/" target="_blank">Ron Marks</a></li>
<li><a title="Redhead Writing" href="http://redheadwriting.com/" target="_blank">Redhead Writing</a></li>
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