Bill Orender uses the cocoon metaphor to argue against settling for mediocrity. He quotes Carlos Temple on why people settle instead of quit, and Art Williams on refusing to be called average, pushing listeners to stop making excuses and demand more from themselves.
The point is, when we get in this cocoon, we got to go through this stuff, and it's called a metamorphosis. It's not pretty, it's not fun all the time, but that's what you have to do to become a butterfly. We're not going to ever let you rest. I'm still in a cocoon. I'm not the butterfly yet, but I don't want— thank God I'm not— I've not settled for being a caterpillar the rest of my life, crawling on my belly. When I could have flown and changed some lives and changed the world. Like Carlos Temple said, people don't quit primarily, they just settle. Are you settling? Are you through settling? Are you through with average and ordinary? Art Williams said, well, call me anything but average and ordinary. Are you through with mediocrity? Are you through with making excuses and having excuses? Are you finished telling your family, hang in there a little bit longer?
