You can accept comfort and slouch toward mediocrity, or you can embrace challenge and stretch forward to excellence.
I need to find people who will challenge me. It’s the “you are the average of the five people you hang around most” idea. I fill my head with Jocko and Goggins at the moment, so they are virtual friends who challenge me. But I need IRL people who have that kind of attitude, because I’m striving for it myself.
Mediocre is repulsive.
It’s like Sebastian’s idea. Someone says “wow you’re good”. His reply is “good on a normal scale or good on an elite scale?”
I don’t want to be good on a normal scale. Within the limits of physics, I want to be good on an elite scale.
Right now I’m training myself to be default “on” (I can’t express the thought clearly) through running. I decide to run and I execute. Stomach full or empty. Tired or rested. Sore legs or not. The temperature is cold or hot.
That reminds me. Contingencies. someday it will be raining and it will be time to run. I need gear to be ready so there is no excuse. Though if necessary I will just go, and be wet.
Prepare for known contingencies and sources of failure. Eliminate SPOFs. That’s one way to transcend mediocrity.