To get results that are out of the ordinary, you must act out of the ordinary. If you do the same things as everybody else, you’ll get the same results as everybody else and you’ll be condemned to mediocrity. That’s why geniuses are eccentric: if they acted and thought like everyone they’d get the results everyone get.
The challenge is getting extraordinarily good results and not extraordinarily bad results. That’s why being average is so popular: it’s safe.