Pursuing excellence as mediocrity keeps a watch
You huff and you puff. You put your vision together brick by brick. But is there really a point in pursuing excellence?
There is. Unless you are a bit confused and are hell bent on chasing perfection -because chasing perfection is a mirage, that can be daunting and can be a never ending chase. The best, the perfect mousetrap doesn’t exist and we should avoid the temptation of chasing perfection for the sake of your resource planner and work towards excellence because that is achievable. The journey towards excellence is arduous and long. It includes constantly setting goals and resetting them and eyeing new benchmarks...it's exciting!
When it is all easy ..perhaps you are being lulled down by mediocrity. You need to see beyond. Compare notes. You need to search and research. Mediocrity can earn you bread and butter but the true fulfillment comes from playing a part in creating excellence. You can be considered lucky if you find yourself among the people who think like you and believe in creating something that outlasts a lifetime.
Mediocrity believes in leveraging the efforts here and now. In the constantly changing dynamic world, it believes in keeping the status quo unnaturally because left to nature’s devices without adequate protection mediocrity always risks being challenged and possibly dethroned. Hence there are systems in place that protect it and help it thrive. Systems that are best used for self protection and self interest by the group that designs it. At best they repress individuality, for the sake of general mediocrity which always is in majority and works best together in a system.
So is there really a point in chasing excellence? There is as long as you accept that mediocrity is not a defeating factor but it indeed catalyzes the realization process and helps one catapult into the blissful path of pursuing excellence. The way it suffocates all that is bright, new and longings that yearn to be expressed, there are bound to be creative bursts that aim to reach beyond what the mediocre systems allow. Again if you called both mediocrity and excellence mere perceptions, you wouldn’t be wrong but if one finds one of them more attractive than the other then there is no harm in living that perception. Is there ? After all you get to choose if you want to spend your life in a quaint teakwood house or a brick and mortar monstrosity..or if on a particular evening you feel like drinking herbal tea instead of your regular concoction of monsoon coffee beans.
You huff and you puff. You put your vision together brick by brick. But is there really a point in pursuing excellence?
There is. Unless you are a bit confused and are hell bent on chasing perfection -because chasing perfection is a mirage, that can be daunting and can be a never ending chase. The best, the perfect mousetrap doesn’t exist and we should avoid the temptation of chasing perfection for the sake of your resource planner and work towards excellence because that is achievable. The journey towards excellence is arduous and long. It includes constantly setting goals and resetting them and eyeing new benchmarks...it's exciting!
When it is all easy ..perhaps you are being lulled down by mediocrity. You need to see beyond. Compare notes. You need to search and research. Mediocrity can earn you bread and butter but the true fulfillment comes from playing a part in creating excellence. You can be considered lucky if you find yourself among the people who think like you and believe in creating something that outlasts a lifetime.
Mediocrity believes in leveraging the efforts here and now. In the constantly changing dynamic world, it believes in keeping the status quo unnaturally because left to nature’s devices without adequate protection mediocrity always risks being challenged and possibly dethroned. Hence there are systems in place that protect it and help it thrive. Systems that are best used for self protection and self interest by the group that designs it. At best they repress individuality, for the sake of general mediocrity which always is in majority and works best together in a system.
So is there really a point in chasing excellence? There is as long as you accept that mediocrity is not a defeating factor but it indeed catalyzes the realization process and helps one catapult into the blissful path of pursuing excellence. The way it suffocates all that is bright, new and longings that yearn to be expressed, there are bound to be creative bursts that aim to reach beyond what the mediocre systems allow. Again if you called both mediocrity and excellence mere perceptions, you wouldn’t be wrong but if one finds one of them more attractive than the other then there is no harm in living that perception. Is there ? After all you get to choose if you want to spend your life in a quaint teakwood house or a brick and mortar monstrosity..or if on a particular evening you feel like drinking herbal tea instead of your regular concoction of monsoon coffee beans.
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