Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.
Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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