Thoughts on my morning read of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck."
"All of this 'every person can be extraordinary and achieve greatness' stuff is basically just jerking off your ego. It's a message that tastes good going down, but in reality is nothing more than empty calories that make you emotionally fat and bloated, the proverbial Big Mac for your heart and brain." This section talks about the fact that even people who are extraordinary at one or a few things are not extraordinary at everything and those things that they are extraordinary at they are because they knew that they weren't so they spent extraordinary amounts of time to improve in an area of life that they cared about and desired to excel in. Plus as Malcolm Gladwell points out in his excellent book Outliers those extraordinary examples of human achievement all had circumstances that had nothing to do with their efforts feed into their achievement as well. So this idea that we can all be extraordinary is bull shit, most of us in simple fact, by the law of averages will be well, average. And you know what? That is OK. It allows us to be free to be who we are without the pressure to be something else. And personally, I like not being in the spotlight with huge numbers of people watching me. I'll take ordinary over that any day, thank you very much! Going back to the book: "And the knowledge and acceptance of your own mundane existence will actually free you to accomplish what you truly wish to accomplish without judgment or lofty expectations." By all means work to make your life better, to be the best you can be, but not what someone else can be, or what society expects you to be. In doing this: "You will have a growing appreciation for life's basic experiences: the pleasures of simple friendship, creating something, helping a person in need, reading a good book, laughing with someone you care about."
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