How to be odd man out (or woman)

One day my friend said that, "Riaz, i tell u...you cannot get into IIM...coz u cant match the IITans and other "dudes". I asked why i cant. He said that "look riaz...each finger in our hand is not same, there are huge differences. The same applies with man, you cannot try to be like someone else...coz that cant happen. I told to him, "look da, yeah ur correct...all the five fingers are not same, but God has given the same five fingers in a hand to every person in the world. You see the fingers, I see the hand." That was two years before when I started my ride to the CAT. Since then, i have stuck to my thinking even if i know that i wont be able to do something. When you take someone as an example, it would just wont work out. You compare your attributes with that person. First you must understand that these things are not comparable or even measurable. You just have it in you. Its how you bring it out. Each and every person has these things. Its just that how much effort they put to bring these attributes out of them.
Nothing is easy in this world. I had to fight hard for everything what i have now. Only few are gifted with the "Midas Touch." The point i just want to make is don't compare your attributes with others, coz it just wont help you out. You yourself try to cultivate new things, however trivial it may be, how ever silly it may be to others. But these little things will help you to achieve want you want to be.
To be unique, you need to be different. You should be different in you style, your approach, your perception of a situation, your perception of the result and your style of implementation. To put long matter simple, you need guts to venture out in the untopgraphed zone. Have that, be different, but dun be silly. I think at this age we have came to know the difference of being silly and being different. Just see what happens when you go out on teh street with that little bit of guts to be unique....