If you've always wished that you had the qualifications required to be a successful entrepreneur, here's good news: There is one career expert who believes that the best way to get a job is to be a job — a nut job.

Meet Ayodeji Awosika, the author of "Why You Have to be Crazy to Succeed," a recent post on a career site called Ladders.

According to Awosika, there are a panoply of rational reasons why an intelligent person would not take on the kind of risky business challenges required to earn megabucks.

Whether you are contemplating a career change, a move up the corporate ladder or the creation of an entirely new industry, the odds of success in any new venture are low. This is reality. This is what you must ignore.

And who ignores reality? In our author's opinion, crazy people. "If you want to be successful," he writes, "you have to be a little bit of a nut job."

Fortunately, you are a nut job. The fact that you are wasting your time reading this column is ample proof.

Some of the nut job attributes that brought success to Awosika include being gullible, being naive and being absent-minded. He also has "total disdain for rules and social norms."

If that's all it takes to qualify as a nut job, you're way ahead of the game.

If a lack of self-confidence in your fundamental nuttiness makes you wonder whether you are sufficiently delusional, there are ways you can dial down the chances of making rational decisions about your future.

First, you must "stop looking for answers in the wrong place."

The world is full of people who will tell you what society expects of you. While these people may have achieved a degree of what passes for success by following the rules, they must be ignored.

In short, you must stop seeking advice from losers.

Definitely ignore the advice you get from your parents. They don't know anything, and if you doubt that, ask a teenager. Don't listen to your managers or your peers. They just want to put you in a box and keep you there. As for authority figures, like college professors and career gurus in the media, give them a wide berth.

If you are going to strike out on a crazy quest for success, don't pay attention to anyone — except for Awosika and, of course, me.

If you do take off on the nut job track, keep it on the down low.

"When you go down this path," Awosika writes, " ... you'll feel like you know the truth about the world. But in your day to day life, you will be made to feel like you're the crazy one."

Sadly, even the strongest — and nuttiest — nut jobs can give "give up on their dreams because they're scared of social ostracism and rejection." This should not be a problem for you. You've been ostracized and rejected since your first day of kindergarten.

(Speaking of which, it's time you apologized to Emily G. for kicking over her blocks. She is now the CEO of a billion-dollar biotech startup and just may forgive you.)

Once your nut-job idea starts to pay off, you will require "the recipe for not even needing the last laugh." Yes, you could mock everyone who did not believe in you. Dazzle them with your Gulfstream III. Crow about your celebrity friends and get all that plastic surgery you've been wanting. But is this really the kind of person you've worked so hard to become?

It is? Well, go for it. You have nothing to lose but your muffin top.

Awosika ends his article acknowledging that he's "not the type of person who says everyone should follow a dream."

"If you don't absolutely hate your job," he writes, "make decent coin, get to have sex with someone you love regularly, do cool (stuff) on the weekends, and watch interesting T.V. shows." According to Awosika, "That's more than enough to be happy."

If you're thinking this sounds pretty good, forget it. Now that Nickelodeon has cancelled "Henry Danger," there are no interesting TV shows. You might as well embrace your inner nut job.

"Dive into the depth of your delusion and never come out" are the author's final words. I have a different point of view.

You can certainly dive in, but you can definitely come out. We all want a ride in your Gulfstream III.

Bob Goldman was an advertising executive at a Fortune 500 company. He offers a virtual shoulder to cry on at bob@bgplanning.com. To find out more about Bob Goldman and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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