George Leonard in his book 'Mastery' spoke of a 'War on Mastery', the prevailing culture of our anti-mastery culture which prioritises short-termism, the quick fix, where we crave the climactic moment rather than enduring the plateaus and setbacks on the path of mastery. His book was written in 1992, before the explosion of the internet and the vacuous surface level attention grabbing content it is littered with.
It takes a person of courage to take on the enormous task of escaping mediocrity. Enjoy your journey in 2024...
Yeah, this resonates. You cover a lot of ground in this article and make many good points, many of which I've been advocating for a long time. There's other ways of saying it, but "The Age of Average" (link below) pretty much nails it, I think. That is to say, from a personal l standpoint, I find a lot of stories that I read okay, but only that. Not much that makes me sit up and say that only that person could have done that.
And then I wonder why is that? Why do we have so many neighborhoods filled with the same beige colored houses? Well, I could speculate, but I prefer to spend my time going my way with my work.
George Leonard in his book 'Mastery' spoke of a 'War on Mastery', the prevailing culture of our anti-mastery culture which prioritises short-termism, the quick fix, where we crave the climactic moment rather than enduring the plateaus and setbacks on the path of mastery. His book was written in 1992, before the explosion of the internet and the vacuous surface level attention grabbing content it is littered with.
It takes a person of courage to take on the enormous task of escaping mediocrity. Enjoy your journey in 2024...
Yeah, this resonates. You cover a lot of ground in this article and make many good points, many of which I've been advocating for a long time. There's other ways of saying it, but "The Age of Average" (link below) pretty much nails it, I think. That is to say, from a personal l standpoint, I find a lot of stories that I read okay, but only that. Not much that makes me sit up and say that only that person could have done that.
And then I wonder why is that? Why do we have so many neighborhoods filled with the same beige colored houses? Well, I could speculate, but I prefer to spend my time going my way with my work.
Here's an article I enjoyed enough to bookmark:
https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average