Mediocrity is Your Enemy

Since immemorial, great minds encountered many opposition. This opposition is not
from someone distinguished but from mediocre people. Mediocrity is a state of being mediocre.
Being mediocre means having a mindset of simple thinking. These are the people whose horizon
settled with less than what life actually offers. They readily accept what the society feed on their
mind rather than questioning it as if it is a matter of fact. These people who possess this kind of
mindset tend to judge people who stand out from the majority, frequently.

Historically, from the past until now profound ideas of smart people were confronted
with inferior minds with low-quality ideas coming from mediocre people. 10 out of 10 of these
mediocre people assert every time a new substantial concept or idea presented to them were
absurd and hilarious, then they would offer this very same ideas which make the situation worse
and hinder the subject for its implementation. This has been shown consistently in several social
science studies that have observed the reservation of accepting a new concept that would alter
the set of belief of a person. This implies that mediocre people don’t want others stand over
them.

Mediocre people views the sky from the bottom of a well. Since they only seen a portion
of a vast sky they think that that’s all what it have. Most of the people before they were born,
their religion, ethics, beliefs, and culture and tradition were already decided by the society they
live in. Their parents will take a special role to lock them in a cage with chains decided by
society. They sometimes think that it is their own decision, that it is their life. Sadly however,
unconsciously and subconsciously their wings were already plucked and even getting worse as
days passed by. A 2019 study state that children’s liberty is declining with 2 primary causes, 1)
schooling, 2) increased regulation outside of school. This therefore suggest that as they grow up,
their freedom will further decrease then leading to a belief that this is what life offers.

What the mediocre people saw from 90% of good thing is 10% of bad thing. Instead of
appreciating and praising for being great unfortunately they will do the opposite. For instance,
you have more excellent points than poor points. What they actually do is criticize this poor
points instead of constructively appraise your work as this will give them a fake sense of
superiority. In the book ‘How to win friends and influence people’, Dale Carniege said that they
do this because this will help them obtain what they desired the most which is their self-worth.
Obtaining self-worth by any means is what people crave for. Ironically, mediocre people will
only get their self-worth by clinging to their pathetic ideals and constantly keep criticize others.

In conclusion, mediocrity arises from having low-standards resulting to ignorance. It is

the cause of mediocre people’s criticism, regularly find fault to what threatens their belief. So as
to guard against these kind of people be unmoved in face of harsh and cruel words, and
indifferently ignore the attitude and behavior they emit because being agitated and apprehensive
will only make them happy, instead don’t let these mediocre suppress your ability, stand firm,
keep walking, swim not in a pond but an ocean, and continuously stride the mountain of
freedom.