February 4, 2010
Trending Towards Mediocrity
Everyone is skilled at something and I believe that is our biggest weakness. People (that means you and me) have a tendency to trend towards a comfort zone, towards the things that are familiar and that we feel we can succeed at.
To develop ourselves personally, in our careers, and even to enhance those skills we are good at we have to get out of the box and stay outside of it for a sustained period of time.
If we’re “good” we can see those skills that are important but lacking. If we’re “great” we will stay focused on developing those skills and not be tempted back to the norm, back to the path of least resistance. The danger to our development is that we trick ourselves into thinking we really are stretching our abilities and facing down things we are not comfortable with.
