Greatness is uncongested
Someone pointed me to a survey this week.
It revealed that one in three Brits believe they could qualify for the Olympics, if they trained for the next four years.
Huh. This reveals two things:
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We don’t understand the hard work required to be great at something, from the outset.
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One in three Brits are not training to be in the Olympics in four years time.
The levels of care, discipline and sacrifice required to be great may not be understood. People may scroll past your works flippantly, not appreciating what you’ve had to overcome to get where you are.
And yet the competition for doing it remains slim. Since while competition does exist, and greatness is hard, most won’t get off their bottoms to try.
Greatness continues to be an uncongested pursuit.