Remarkable versus average, mediocre, and unremarkable
Thursday, February 5th, 2009How easy is it to be remarkable? Very… because 99% of the world is not. Most people are completely happy and content with being average. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that because that fact of life makes being remarkable even more valuable, important, and easier to achieve, though it’s not easy at all.
It’s easy to blend in, acheive average, develop mediocrity… to be unremarkable. There’s no pressure in it, and probably for most people it’s where they ought to be, it’s all they can hope to achieve.
Being remarkable takes courage more than anything… and a thick skin. To be remarkable is to put yourself out there, open for criticism, open to failure, open to being wrong. I like what Seth Godin said about being wrong in his new book, “Tribes”: …the secret to being wrong or making mistakes is not to avoid being wrong or making mistakes, the secret is to not be afraid to be wrong or make mistakes.
The biggest difference between remarkable and average is the courage it takes to be remarkable.