If youre not the best, youre simply one of the rest

My take on life: We have to always be good at what we do; because if we’re not, nobody will care that we’re doing it.

I saw a friend’s facebook update: perfectionism can help you when you’re doing something you’re good at, but if can defeat you when you’re doing something you’re bad at.

I used to think that there isn’t anything possible, and as long as we work hard enough we’ll be just as good. But obviously that was an extremely naive view to take. Put it simply, we could reach a certain level of competency if we worked hard enough, but how efficient would that be compared to working on something we’re actually good at? That oversimplification of matters aside, there’s always the theories of absolute advantage and comparative advantage to consider.

Sad to say, no matter how lousy (relative to the average relevant person) we might be at in any fields we might dabble in, we still have to do something. Because man was not born equal and there’s nothing we can do about it.

I want to give up.