Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

@TheFightAgainstMediocrity

4 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Mediocrity is regret: the feeling you could have achieved more but settled for less. The speaker asks guests what fighting mediocrity means to them, and one answer stuck: the fear of looking back at your life and knowing you messed up by not striving harder.

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Mediocrity. Can we define that? Do you have a definition that you use on stage or while you're talking to people about it? At the end of my podcast, I actually ask everyone, what does the fight against mediocrity mean to them? And I honestly can't remember who said it, but they said it. They said mediocrity is regret. Mediocrity is regretting that you could have done more, you could have become more, but you didn't. For me, that really struck a chord with me because when I think of the fight against mediocrity, the reason I'm fighting it is because if I settle for mediocrity, then at the end of my life, I'd be like, dang, I messed up. That's it.

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