What is the difference between mediocrity and greatness?
Possibly not as much as you think.
You know, it really takes very little to make a big
difference in our lives and in the world. In professional baseball in the USA for
example, most batters hit for an average of about .250, which means that they
get one hit for every four times at bat. Anyone who hits .300, three hits out
of ten, is considered a star. By the end of the season, there are only about a
dozen players out of hundreds in the leagues who have maintained a .300
average, and these are the ones who get the big contracts, the acclaim, and the
TV commercials.
In other words, the difference between the great players and
the ordinary players is only one hit out of twenty! This slim margin of
greatness in baseball symbolises the dynamics of greatness in life, because
when we use just a tiny bit more of our potential, we become outstanding human
beings.
Now, the purpose of being outstanding is not to win acclaim
or glory, but to be more of what we can be. If you accept the idea that most of
your present limitations are not based on any unchangeable reality but are
rather the result of beliefs you hold about your reality, then the next step is
to deliberately and systematically change those beliefs.
It’s called possibility thinking, and it’s a skill you can
learn quite easily.
