Kneeling as if controlled by a central computer

March 10, 2015 12:06 PM

Look around. Mediocrity isn’t just rewarded, it’s
demanded.

Our society worships incompleteness, celebrates stupidity, encourages
negativity and retweets cynicism. Marginally talented people get fame they don’t
deserve, land gigs they don’t earn, make money they don’t work for and achieve
success they don’t sweat for.

Why?

Because mediocrity is safe and relatable.
And that’s the very problem. We’ve been
conditioned to blend in and bow to the common will, to march in lockstep with
our culture and to live within the lines drawn by others. And unless we crawl
out of our comfy boxes and put down the security blanket of conformity, we’ll
never find out who we really are. We’ll never find a home for all of our talents.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, which helped
inspire the confidence that I could survive outside the corporate womb. And so,
I barreled toward an unconventional career path with complete single
mindedness. I spun my work out of myself, discovered its own laws and trained
myself to act without feeling dependent on circumstances, without having to
wait for events to align in my favor.

And what I learned in the process is,
there is no prize for the one who leaves his canvas clean. There is no reward
for the man who outsources his conscience. Hire yourself and see what happens.

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What did you believe five years ago that now makes you wonder, what was I thinking?

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Scott Ginsberg

That Guy with the Nametag

Author. Speaker. Strategist. Inventor. Filmmaker. Publisher. Songwriter.

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