What We Can Learn From Spongebob Squarepants

Unless you live in a cave or some­thing, I’m sure you have heard of or watched Sponge­bob Squarepants. The lov­able (maybe a bit annoy­ing some­times) lit­tle sponge that lives in a pineap­ple under the sea. He lives a care­free life and has some qual­i­ties that I think peo­ple can ben­e­fit from.

First let’s answer a ques­tion. What is so appeal­ing about the entre­pre­neur­ial lifestyle? Why are so many peo­ple try­ing to achieve it? It has a lot to do with the money, but it mostly has to do with the free­dom. The free­dom to live a life that you want. The free­dom to basi­cally do what you please. To make you and peo­ple you care about happy.

This is a dream of a lot of peo­ple and it’s quite a jour­ney to reach that point. It’s not usu­ally some­thing that hap­pens overnight. Not only do you have to build a strong foun­da­tion for you and your busi­ness but you have to evolve your­self as well. There are traits and habits that suc­cess­ful peo­ple have. They learned to how to develop them­selves to become bet­ter, stronger peo­ple. The more they worked on them­selves and devel­oped the skills they needed to suc­ceed, the closer they get to suc­cess. To achiev­ing that dream and lifestyle.

So what does this have to do with some car­toon character?

Sponge­bob may not be liv­ing the rich, free lifestyle of a entre­pre­neur but that doesn’t stop him from being the happy go lucky guy that he is. And it’s his per­son­al­ity that I think peo­ple can learn from.

He’s almost always happy.
It doesn’t mat­ter what is going on, Sponge­bob always seems to be smil­ing and laugh­ing. Even if there is a prob­lem that makes him unhappy, he’s right back to being happy when the prob­lem is resolved. He doesn’t let much get him down.

He lives day by day.
He doesn’t con­cen­trate on the past or look towards the future. Sponge­bob lives day by day, tak­ing things as they come. Liv­ing in the here and now is a les­son that has been around for a long time. Sponge­bob lives his life this way everyday.

He has a good work ethic.
Spong­bob is never late. Being late is an emer­gency in the mind of Sponge­bob. He never misses a day, and half the time prob­a­bly works for free. His money grub­bing boss puts him through the hoops, but he doesn’t mind. He’s ded­i­cated to his work.

These are all traits of men­tally healthy, suc­cess­ful peo­ple. And these are all things that we can learn too. Sure Sponge­bob would prob­a­bly be a pretty annoy­ing per­son to know, and it seems like igno­rance is what gives him his happy go lucky atti­tude, but some­times it’s the lit­tle things that teach oth­ers. Sponge­bob looks at life in a whole dif­fer­ent light than most people.

It may seem odd to draw things from a char­ac­ter that tech­ni­cally doesn’t really exist but you may be sur­prised what you can learn from the unex­pected. Of course you could just be a grumpy neigh­bor who is always dream­ing of suc­cess but never reach­ing it. Hmm.…

~Chris

Have you ever noticed some­thing, or learned some­thing from an unex­pected source? Are there other fic­ti­tious char­ac­ters that taught you something?

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