“Despite everything you may have heard about striving for excellence, mediocrity is the key to happiness. Consider: There are more than six billion people on the planet. Almost none of them care about your latest victory in the stock market, or the promotion you “earned.” You finally bought that new car? Found a way to swing the payments on a bigger house? You lost six pounds last week? Wonderful. A disconcerting number of the six billion are just trying to get enough food to stay alive.”
― The Underachiever's Manifesto
― The Underachiever's Manifesto
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