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Mediocrity is a Choice
You can decide not to excel just as much as you can choose to excel in life.
I recently came across a quote by Ayodeji Awosika that really spoke to me. He said,
“Society is set up for the individual to be mediocre. On the other hand, though, the machine doesn’t mind if a few cogs are missing because the vast majority of people will remain cogs.”
While I have long been aware of this, I’d never quantified it in quite this way. Society DOES encourage mediocrity.
All you have to do is look at the school system. With the never-ending testing cycles employed to measure up to a “standard,” teachers are increasingly unable to — ya know — teach. Most of my teacher friends have commented about this along the way.
Critical thinking is certainly not being taught. Don’t believe me? How else do you explain so many people buying into ludicrous conspiracy theories about the global pandemic and politics? Apply reason and logic and you will see that nobody stands to gain from such a conspiracy. COVID-19 is real and dangerous — it’s not being overly-hyped to make Trump look bad. Yet, many are unable to see this.
