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Author Topic: How do stop being mediocre?  (Read 7817 times)

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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #45 on: September 04, 2010, 11:22:05 am »

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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #46 on: September 04, 2010, 12:54:36 pm »

Man, I should write a self help book, I am so pro at this. Good to hear you're feeling better, Huesoo.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #47 on: September 04, 2010, 01:01:51 pm »

Man, I should write a self help book, I am so pro at this. Good to hear you're feeling better, Huesoo.

Thanks alot man, I might also start drinking Red Bull aswell at every meal, do you think its a good idea?
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #48 on: September 04, 2010, 01:12:24 pm »

Man, I should write a self help book, I am so pro at this. Good to hear you're feeling better, Huesoo.

Thanks alot man, I might also start drinking Red Bull aswell at every meal, do you think its a good idea?

You got the right idea, but Red Bull's pretty harsh. You might want to cut that shit with some liquid MDMA.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #49 on: September 04, 2010, 01:48:45 pm »

Sounds good man, thanks a lot.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #50 on: September 04, 2010, 02:21:41 pm »

holy shit i'm sorry i'm late but dude don't do drugs that's like the worst thing ever. if you do do drugs i don't think you should take red bull and cocaine simultaneously seriously. people die when they do that kind of stuff.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #51 on: September 04, 2010, 02:48:29 pm »

Hey man, I never said he should do Red Bull and cocaine, that's just suicide. I said he should take Red Bull and Ecstasy. That's just, like...lunch.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #52 on: September 04, 2010, 02:52:07 pm »

"I'm lazy and apathetic and like to seek validation from the internet."

"Just take some Redbull and Meth. Self-realization is over-rated."
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #53 on: September 07, 2010, 04:36:34 am »

I dont know, I want to be better at science. Im already doing Year 10 Science when im in Year 9, Accelerated Science as its called. But I want I want to be better.

You don't sound that mediocre. Mediocre is doing a non science stream :P

I dunno.. B12ers seem to be overambitious, not surprising seeing how DF itself is overambitious. While most of the indie community out there is making tower defense games and platformers, B12 makes frigging life simulations. Most of the fans around here have similar overambitions too. They fall a bit short and think lowly of themselves. I'm getting failing grades in an elite school. I keep thinking of myself as mediocre, until I find that I could do many technical things better than most top scorers from easier schools. I'd bet that many of the ones trolling this thread feel a similar way.

It's not so much that you're being bad at stuff, but you're just halfway towards getting to your ambitions. There's a lot of stupid people who say "You can achieve anything as long as you work for it." Well, no, there's always going to be someone smarter and better than you are at anything. I've met people who get 98% grades from top schools, sing better than many Idols, play football better, look more attractive than most people, then they go out and get within the top 5% salary on graduation. They hang out with the same people as me, play the same games, are about as lazy.

But heck, they do things consistently. And if you work consistently at whatever you're trying to achieve, you should get there too. Just not as far as people who had a head start.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #54 on: September 07, 2010, 10:50:11 am »

holy shit i'm sorry i'm late but dude don't do drugs that's like the worst thing ever. if you do do drugs i don't think you should take red bull and cocaine simultaneously seriously. people die when they do that kind of stuff.

I take more drugs than there are in your bathroom cabinet.

And thanks Muz, that really cleared up my mind and helped knowing that there are others who are like me.
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #55 on: September 07, 2010, 05:10:39 pm »

But heck, they do things consistently. And if you work consistently at whatever you're trying to achieve, you should get there too. Just not as far as people who had a head start.
I am not sure about the validity of it, but some studies suggest that, with minor variations, it takes about 10.000 hours of practice to become extremely good at anything. Any differences between people don't come over the noise threshold (probably 5% chance that the variation can't be attributed to chance).
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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #56 on: September 07, 2010, 09:51:12 pm »

If you're feeling mediocre or average at everything, a good way to get out of that rut is to start trying to become really bad at a few things. Eventually it'll all balance out and other stuff you do will being becoming above-average. Min-maxing FTW.
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« Reply #57 on: September 07, 2010, 10:28:55 pm »

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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #58 on: September 10, 2010, 03:59:39 am »

At first, I saw that Huesoo was posting and I was all



Then I read the first post and I was all



And then I read Dwarf mc Dwarf's post at the bottom of page one and I was all

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Re: How do stop being mediocre?
« Reply #59 on: September 10, 2010, 04:04:40 am »

D mc D is made of awesome, is why.
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