• Why Don't You?

    by Alexander Becker on November 08, 2007 | Link

    The difference between excellence and mediocrity? Action.

    Initial output is important. What initial input triggers your action in the first place?

    Is there any moderate amount of anything that could get you started? No? I thought so.

    It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

    While it helps to start from scratch, you don't necessarily have to lose everything in order to evolve -- it's the easiest way though.

    I could. Complacency. Inertia. Hesitation. Laziness. Insecurity. Being content enough. Mediocrity?

    Why does it always have to be a shock, something extreme, something radical, some drastic experience, to get us moving? Why do we look best when we're totally exhausted? Why do we have to run a whole marathon? Why do we literally have to burn the ships? Why can't we just start?

    Because maybe -- maybe, it would be too easy. If it would be so easy, everyone could and eventually would do it.

    Enough, sufficient, moderate -- that is what is holding back and keeping together the mediocre.

    Mediocrity is not the problem nor is it the enemy. Mediocrity is the result of not getting started. Get started and you will eventually evolve and excel. But if you don't -- you won't.

    I can. The world is not enough, nothing will ever suffice, and moderation is not a means to achieve anything remarkable.

    You know that you could. I know that you can.

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