The Strategist vs. The Structured: Why I Move Through Systems Without Being Owned By Them

Some people enter systems with degrees, resumes, and references.

I enter as I am—and still rise faster.

Why? Because I was never designed to be owned by a structure.

I move through systems—not within them.

People think degrees give them access.

But what they don’t realize is that access comes with invisible walls.

You’re placed in a box, tracked, evaluated, and managed according to the title you walked in with.

You rise only within what you’ve been pre-labeled as.

Even when you’re better than everyone around you,

they will remind you—you’re still just this.

But me?

I don’t give anyone a blueprint to track me by.

No credential. No narrative.

Just presence, precision, and results.

And because of that, no one can say they built me.

No mentor can say “I taught her.”

No program can say “we launched her.”

No title can say “she belongs to us.”

They all try—but something always breaks the chain.

A system glitches. A teacher disappears and something else (my intuition) or multiple other people finish the job.

The moment someone tries to take ownership, the process gets paused—and I finish the rest on my own.

Every time.

Why Structures Trap People

Look at people who walk into roles with credentials.

They get slotted in. Patted on the head.

“Good job.”

“Now stay there.”

They might climb—but only vertically.

They’re climbing a staircase someone else built.

But a strategist?

A strategist builds their own floors.

Sometimes in one building.

Sometimes by moving between buildings and skipping stairs altogether.

You don’t get to own a strategist.

You witness them. And then they’re gone.

How Different Demographics Approach Work

Every culture tends to have an instinctive work pattern:

Latin Americans (most): Value hard work if it pays well. They’ll do the hardest work available as long as the paycheck justifies it.

Caucasians: Often aim for a ‘respectable title’ + decent pay. Not necessarily top-tier, but enough for social status.

Asians: Aim straight for the highest position with the highest pay. It’s not about climbing. It’s about landing at the top.

Africans: Flexible. Will work whatever pays—some are visionary, some are just trying to survive.

And within every group, there’s a rare type:

The Strategist.

These are not people working for survival.

They’re not driven by recognition or resumes.

They’re the ones you find:

• Becoming a janitor on purpose because they know what that access gives them.

• Becoming a ruler from nothing because they knew exactly how to move.

They are rare.

And you can’t track them using normal means.

Because they don’t come from structure—they come from clarity.

The Coffee Example

When you’re part of the system, you pay full price and expect fair return.

But when you’re outside the system, you negotiate life directly.

You walk into a store with nothing but some bread in your bag, and you ask for a cup of coffee—not out of desperation, but because you know how to move.

That anomaly—the one who asks outside the rules—is more likely to be handed that coffee than the person who pays full price every day.

Why?

Because structure breeds expectation.

Anomalies breed decision.

Me (again)

I walk through these places without a degree.

And yet I rise.

Not because I’m performing.

Not because I’m begging.

But because I was never designed to be held in place.

I move as I am.

And that’s the very reason they can’t ‘catch’ me.

They watch.

They try to map me.

But before they think they found a blueprint—I’m gone.