Picture this:
Person 1 (let’s call him Greg) comes up to you, and tells you that he’s from the future. For fifteen minutes, Greg rambles on about how you need to strive to get to a place in your life where you are able to walk into any room filled with people who share your profession, and be the most skilled individual there.
Person 2 (let’s call her Sally) soon joins the conversation. Sally tells you that she’s also from the future, and has come to shut down the advice Greg’s trying to hand to you. She claims that you never want to be the best at anything. That you should actually make sure that never happens. That it’ll do you no good.
Other than trying to figure out how these two people cracked the code to time travel, you just stare at them blankly.
Greg or Sally?
I think that most of the world today would side with what Greg had to say. “Become the best.”
But Sally was really onto something. As soon as you become the “best,” it’s easy to think that there is nothing more for you to learn. You grow comfortable in that space. I feel like many people chase this comfortability. They don’t realize they’ve become totally stagnant in their journey. They remain in the same place for however long, because they’ve “learnt all there is to know.”
The bittersweet truth surrounding them: There is always something else to learn.
Thought for the day:
Never stop being teachable.
Constantly positioning yourself with a readiness to learn something, no matter how small, is one of the most wonderful traits a person can carry. Not only does it expand your growth in any sphere at a rapid pace, but it just also makes you more of an open person in general.
“If you’re the best in the room… you are in the wrong room.”
Think about it.
Catch you in the next one!
Joshua 🙂
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