At the same time, we can also adopt meritocracy in qualifying a leader.

but we need to strive for more always. Therein only lies fulfillment

Actually, I kind of agree with you in part. As a Social Linguist, he knew that using the word mediocrity wasn't a great word to use to have a genuine discussion about the topic and that using that particular word would get people all stirred up and miss what he was really talking about. With so many people having topics on KZfaq I guess even people who are serious about what they really trying to put out there have to get those clicks.

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You know, if the speaker believes his own speech, then a grade of C- might not be such a bad thing 😅 It’s perhaps a little strange to hear someone who has already achieved a lot praising “mediocrity” but I think he truly does mean “mediocre” as in “not the best, but not the worst” rather than “relaxed and easy.” The problem with comparison is perhaps the key point to take away from the talk. “Mediocrity” is an inherently comparative word, but it does have a much more negative connotation than it perhaps should, since it technically means “somewhere between high and low.”

Of course it's good that you want the " better things in life"and if you want to work towards that particular goal, you go girl. If I may ask you a question? Someone in their partner have a child. They go to work every morning at a job that they sort of kind of like. They have a hobby or they may go to the gym everyday, they take the kid to the park and watch the kid play around with a smile on their face. They go home to their partner talk about their day eat dinner talk some more put the kids to sleep and spend some time with their partner before they go to bed. Just an average day for them I mean it's not like they do this every single day. Some days they may meet up with friends and family. They save their money so that a couple of times a year they go on vacation to somewhere they've always wanted to go. Now I'm m guessing most people would say that's a pretty ordinary life, but is that life sad to you?

@Theresa Ivy Yes, there is so much more... but I don't knock anyone for choosing it, although, it's sort of the easy default. Somebody has to choose it. It would be sad for ME.

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Good stories are good stories, regardless of genre. Genre doesn’t matter. Substance matters. Characters matter. Story matters. I’d much rather have an epic space opera or sword and sorcery (and dragon) fantasy tale with real character arcs and epic stories than 30 minutes of canned laughter over mundane stories about static characters making jokes that were funnier when Roseanne made them 30 years ago. The problem isn’t “glamour,” as you said, it’s that too often genre films reach for glamour and nothing else. They pick style over substance. You can have both. You need both usually to sell your story. But it’s the latter that truly makes a movie or TV show great. Sitcoms like The Middle (which, btw, I liked for the most part) have basically the same problem, though it mostly presents in a different way. They aim for the lowest, easiest, comfiest part of the middle (pun sorta intended 🤷🏻‍♂️), because they think the that’s where the largest audience resides, sitting on their big comfy couch in front of the TV. It’s insulting, but it’s also mostly right. That’s where the ad money is. In a way, you can’t blame them for not being more bold or creative, for not taking chances. They can’t afford to. Cancel culture is real! (at least at the TV networks, when it comes to ratings). Network TV is probably dying (which is sad, but only because we would be losing an outlet for stories and other artistic expression, not because anything it’s done in the past decade is in anyway good), but it still has a lot control left, even as it sinks. I love TV, I think it might be the greatest canvas available for an artist who paints with characters arcs and sculpts with storylines. But the system set up to give us the works of the artists is too flawed, too money-focused, too quick to hit the cancel button. So very little actually makes it to an audience, and the few that do are pasteurized, whitewashed, coated in plain white non-spiced flour and deep-fried in PC oil and the original artist’s heart and soul are thrown in bleach water and used to clean up the mess. Network TV has not given anything a chance to grow, adapt, find an audience, and fully tell out its story, since LOST premiered in 2004. Almost two decades. Ugh. It makes me so mad. Anyway. Sorry. That was a lot. Ok cool bye. ✌🏻

It's the same reason Roseanne did so well. To this day, I think it's still the most realistic show about a working-class family.

I guess my problem is whose idea of "great heights' are we talking about?

that's why I hate ted talks

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@@theresaivy7045 relativism leads to nihilism. Simple answer to your question: The greatest heights you could possibly imagine. Will you fall short? 100%

How do you define "weak-minded"? It seems a rather simplistic yet reductive broad categorization. How is your idea "weak-minded" generalized from a specific behavior set that is culturally, socially, situationally, and often even biologically and environmentally influenced to stereotype an individual? When you start they, them, and those people-ing you lose the plot and the point.

How

You do you, but trying to force your ideal on everyone else is meh.

The fact is that only few people would be at the top at any given place and time, and I believe it goes to whom who seeks it most.

WTF is wrong with this world ,

@@TheBeav30 idiots like bull Gates believe the select will be kept while the rest are made to serve and due to fewer duties, fewer people.

Wow, imagine coming to THAT conclusion from this talk 😂 grow up kid