Chasing greatness can be overwhelming. Pursuing the title of “the best” can be downright paralyzing.
And for some reason, we tend to over-compete with our marketing skills when it’s not even intended to be a competition.
So give yourself a break and just make sucking less your goal.
There’s something liberating about, and I think more productive, about sucking less:
- It forces you to admit you suck, thus shedding the pressure of the greatness label (think guru, ninja, wizard or maverick).
- It gives you the opportunity to feel good about small improvements. Becoming the best usually requires “giant leaps for mankind.”
- It normally works better. It’s amazing how effective just the smallest improvement can be.
So, what do you suck at? What would happen if you just sucked a little less?
(Tip o’ da hat to Sonia Simone and Dave Navarro for planting this seed in their Third Tribe interview. Good stuff.)
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Honestly, I suck at a lot of things. Piano for instance yet I practice anyway, even at times out of peer frustration but it eventually leads to some level of joy. I’m in agreement- sucking is great because it leaves lots of room for improvement (me and my piano). The day you stop improving- that can be scary for the folks around you.
Janette
Janette – the level of joy … I think there’s something to that. I think we too often deprive ourselves of the joy our current skills could bring us because we’re too busy thinking we have to be really good at it.