⏱️ Why you should be ok with being “just okay”
💡 THOUGHTS FROM ME
I. We all want to be great at what we do. Being “just okay” (or worse) often leads us to not even try or to give up too soon.
However, in order to be good at something, you need the time, practice, and space to improve. Yet “just okay” is the best you can be at anything when you first start out.
The first videos you record won’t be great. You’ll look like you don’t know what you are doing when you first start going to the gym. The quality of your drawings won’t look anything like you envision.
And because no one wants to produce anything that looks “just okay” we’d rather not try at all. We question whether we’d be better off trying something else.
But you’ll never be better than “just okay” unless you're willing to put up with mediocre results in the beginning. Your best efforts in the beginning will not create amazing results.
What you need is courage. Courage to be mediocre. Courage to continue knowing that you are better than what you are producing right now. Courage to not care about being average while you learn.
Great work comes from continuing while your work is “just okay.”
You must embrace with being “just okay” now in order to be exceptional later.
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II. Time is either for you or against you depending on your habits. If you have good habits, all you need is time. If you have bad habits, time is not on your side.
💬 1 HELPFUL QUOTE
Art Williams on how to win:
“Almost everybody can stay excited for 2 or 3 months. A few people can stay excited for 2 or 3 years. But a winner will stay excited for 30 years or however long it takes to win.”
📖 1 BRIEF BOOK REVIEW
The Intelligence Trap by David Robson
As the subtitle says, it is a book about why smart people make dumb decisions. And I must say, it really does explain how that happens in this book. Well done on delivering on the title.
That said, I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second half. The book shows how people can be really smart in one area and lack intelligence in another. At the same time, it talks about how we can resist falling into these traps ourselves.
That said, there were a lot of studies and conversations referenced in the book, so the amount of information made it hard to keep track of all that was going on. But if you are into psychology, you will enjoy this book.
For me, however, this was a book I had to make myself finish to the end. Others may enjoy it more than I did, though I was still glad to have read it.
6/10
