Everyone you meet has your best interests at heart.
Wrong!
Not everyone does.
Usually, only a few people do.
Close family and friends.
However, many people will try to gain power over you, especially if they perceive you as a threat.
Especially if you show too much of your talent, maintain humility.
Suppose you provide nothing to benefit them. The currency of life is “ what can you do for me?”.
You’ll get lost in oblivion if you have nothing to offer the world.
That’s why you must show your worth when you get a chance at a vocation or any opportunity.
Especially when employed.
Help your manager, help your colleagues.
Provide as much value to them as you can, so you would be a massive miss if you weren’t there.
This makes you a linchpin.
And not easily replaceable.
We all need to be linchpins.
A linchpin is “a person or thing vital to an enterprise or organisation.”
If we’re not linchpins, we can be easily replaced.
And we don’t want to be disposable.
So the key thing to remember is:
The lazy and ignorant get swallowed up, and the linchpins thrive.
And that’s why the improvement journey, the journey to mastery, never ends.
Because there isn’t a finish line saying when you’ve reached your potential.
Your potential is always a moving target with no end.
And that’s why we need to find joy on the journey to self-mastery.
Remember this heuristic:
The people who are the best at what they do are rewarded the most handsomely in society since time immemorial.
Alexander the Great was one of the greatest rulers ever, conquering the known world at only 30 years old.
Lionel Messi has become the greatest footballer ever, and he will be immortalised in history books.
The point is that the people who are the best at what they do are rewarded the most.
But mostly, the game is its own reward.
Because they’ve come as close as possible to their potential.
What would your life be like if you were the best at what you do?
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