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People born with talent have an opportunity to both themselves and the world to make use of this talent to do great things. When you replace a drive for greatne
by quotemstr 7y ago
People born with talent have an opportunity to both themselves and the world to make use of this talent to do great things. When you replace a drive for greatness with contentment with mediocrity, you make us all worse off.
- sgt101 7y agoLess than one in 10,000 will have an opportunity of "greatness". Most people might get moderate success, and if they take than with good grace and leave space and time in their lives for their community and their health we will all be better off.
- romanhn 7y agoGuess what, nobody owes you, or the world at large, a thing. We only have one life and everyone's priorities are different. Want to spend your life chasing greatness? Be my guest. But if one would rather define happiness through friends and family, they have every right to do so. And plenty of people will be better off for that, themselves included.
- slothtrop 7y agoAdd to the fact, nobody chasing "greatness" (i.e. Outstanding recognition) had to be told to. They want to. This anxiety surrounding advice advocating more self-awareness bc would-be influences might suddenly get lazy is ridiculous.