There’s a rude awakening in life for most people, whether they choose to see it or not.
The awakening, or maybe the realization, is that you’re not special and unless you’re three standard deviations above the mean in a lucrative stat (i.e. intelligence). You are nothing but an ordinary person with a theoretical value less than some, more than others.
This hurts the ego. We are made to believe we are all special, destined for greatness. You’re potentially the next big thing, right? Everyone can be all that they want if they work hard enough. To some extent, most things are achievable in some form. However, the “becoming” in the story that people make up, means being the “hero”.
But if everyone lives through this story, there will be immense competition. Who usually wins competitions? Say for instance 100m race. Usain Bolt wins. Would YOU be able to, given the same amount of training, be able to win? Sadly, no. This is what people do not like to realize. Even in such mundane things as doing the very job that you have specialized in, you are not the best, and will never be.
So, should I just then give up on life? I mean, it’s all or nothing right? Ha! Your ego gotcha. No, with this realization comes redemption. Freedom of egoistic thought. It is when you can objectively observe yourself that you can best carry on your mediocre life. Make it a better mediocre life than the others, stuck in the egoistic thinking, incapable of making correct decisions, because they have yet to realize their true value.
You do not have to become Einstein or even good at what you want to learn. If a skill is useful for the life that you live, i.e. data science, then you learn it to the best ability that you can. This is infinitely more worth, than the egoistic thinkers, who learn a little of many things, ultimately discarding them because they can’t handle the let down it is, when they hit the first wall.
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The awakening, or maybe the realization, is that you’re not special and unless you’re three standard deviations above the mean in a lucrative stat (i.e. intelligence). You are nothing but an ordinary person with a theoretical value less than some, more than others.
This hurts the ego. We are made to believe we are all special, destined for greatness. You’re potentially the next big thing, right? Everyone can be all that they want if they work hard enough. To some extent, most things are achievable in some form. However, the “becoming” in the story that people make up, means being the “hero”.
But if everyone lives through this story, there will be immense competition. Who usually wins competitions? Say for instance 100m race. Usain Bolt wins. Would YOU be able to, given the same amount of training, be able to win? Sadly, no. This is what people do not like to realize. Even in such mundane things as doing the very job that you have specialized in, you are not the best, and will never be.
So, should I just then give up on life? I mean, it’s all or nothing right? Ha! Your ego gotcha. No, with this realization comes redemption. Freedom of egoistic thought. It is when you can objectively observe yourself that you can best carry on your mediocre life. Make it a better mediocre life than the others, stuck in the egoistic thinking, incapable of making correct decisions, because they have yet to realize their true value.
You do not have to become Einstein or even good at what you want to learn. If a skill is useful for the life that you live, i.e. data science, then you learn it to the best ability that you can. This is infinitely more worth, than the egoistic thinkers, who learn a little of many things, ultimately discarding them because they can’t handle the let down it is, when they hit the first wall.
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