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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @wackster OP 16 Aug \ parent \ on: How do you cope with your own mediocrity? AskSN

Only luck counts may be the right answer. But good luck doesn't feel like enough. Don't we, in our folly, want truly great luck?

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110 sats \ 1 reply \ @robbabuona 16 Aug

Maybe not everyone, maybe yes. But in your opinion what makes a person above mediocrity? Tell me a person in your opinion that is in that bunch of mediocrity?

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @wackster OP 16 Aug

This is a great question because it makes me pin it down on specifics. I can wax philosophical all day long, but the moment I have to make it real, I think I start to sound very naive. Here goes, anyway:

Steinbeck was above mediocrity. Clearly Satoshi was (is?). Fritjof Nansen, Mary Shelley...I think I mean all the typical great names.

It's not fame that makes a person above mediocrity, but having changed the world we live in to an extent much greater than just your own life.

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