Different is better than better

The reality, however, is that “better” is not better. Better is a mirage. It keeps you chained to the same way of working as your competition Better is temporary. Better is a flimsy edge that can be toppled in a millisecond by someone with a bigger following, a lower price, a more convenient location, a fancier degree, a shinier award, a newer technology, a more skillful skill. Better is not always better. Sometimes, it’s worse.

Different is better than better. Different doesn’t try to turn you into something else. Different allows you to highlight the singular traits you already have within you. You aren’t necessarily better than your competition. But you are already different . Throughout your career, you will compete against people who are more established, more famous, more connected, more specialized. But they can’t be you. They can’t capture your highest distinct value. Only you have you

- Sally Hogshead

There is a gateway just where we had stopped. Two paths meet here; No one has yet followed either to its end. This long lane stretches back for eternity & the long lane out there, that is another eternity. They contradict each other, these paths; they offend each other face to face, and it is here at this gateway that they come together. The name of the gateway is inscribed above: ‘Moment.’ But whoever would follow one of them on and on, farther and farther -do you believe, these paths contradict each other eternally? yet, Both lead to eternity !!!
 -thus spoke Zarathustra

“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment, but with good judgment, he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.” -  Alfred Binet