The Horsemen of Mediocrity
Deniability, Helplessness, Contempt and Fear.
The Four Horsemen of Mediocrity
Seth Godin recently identified the four reason why people remain mediocre:
Deniability—”They decided, created, commanded or blocked. Not my fault.”
Helplessness—”My boss won’t let me.”
Contempt—”They don’t pay me enough to put up with the likes of these customers.”
Fear—”It’s good enough, it’s not worth the risk, people will talk, this might not work…”
which in turn inspired me to make this H.I.P.
Destroy Mediocrity with Creation
Are you happy with just fulfilling the minimum requirements because being remarkable takes too long?
Do you find yourself justifying what you are doing by saying, “that’s the way we do things around here,” instead of finding new ways of doing things?
Have you become content with the status quo, because continually seeking ways to improve is too hard?
Are you okay with crappy PowerPoint presentations because it is easier than scrapping them and creating effective presentations to deliver your point?
Then, you are trapped by these 4 horsemen of mediocrity.
Escape Now!
To escape the curse of mediocrity, you have to create and ship. Be a radical, a rebel, or a rabble-rouser — wipe your ass with typical.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. — Confucius
Who is Seth Godin?
Seth Godin is the author of 17 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. You might be familiar with his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip and Purple Cow.
High Impact Picture (HIP) is an effort to deliver content in the simplest form possible. Everyone knows that people love inforgraphics. It’s my view that people’s attention span is too short for inforgraphics. We need a shorter way to deliver the same information — but still be as informative and as entertaining. So, this is the world’s best ideas — bite sized. You can follow the rest of the HIPs here.
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SK lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a coffee addict who happens to write about productivity, entrepreneurship and lifehacks at sathyvelukunashegaran.com.
