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But for many of you ''already will have made the most of it''. Whatever small fame you have acquired yet surpasses your own level of incompetence, and you should be more grateful than your [[LinkedIn]] feed suggests you are that no-one who matters has worked this out yet. For most of you, this will be because the fellow best placed to work it out — your line manager — is just as as far past hers as you are past yours.
But for many of you ''already will have made the most of it''. Whatever small fame you have acquired yet surpasses your own level of incompetence, and you should be more grateful than your [[LinkedIn]] feed suggests you are that no-one who matters has worked this out yet. For most of you, this will be because the fellow best placed to work it out — your line manager — is just as as far past hers as you are past yours.


'''You're unexceptional''': With “exceptional” we immediately bump up against a definitional bound. Sorry, [[LinkedIn]], there is some bad news: you ''aren’t'' all exceptional. You ''can’t'' all be an exception. This isn’t our usual bitter contrarianism but simple logic: an ''exception'' requires a ''rule'' and, odds are, you’re it: your role in the grand cosmic scheme is to sit there, grimly hacking away in the mediocre middle; helping to form a dreary collective yardstick against which better men and women than you can be measured.  
'''You’re unexceptional''': With “exceptional” we immediately bump up against a definitional bound. Sorry, [[LinkedIn]], there is some bad news: you ''aren’t'' all exceptional. You ''can’t'' all be an exception. This isn’t our usual bitter contrarianism but simple logic: an ''exception'' requires a ''rule'' and, odds are, you’re it: your role in the grand cosmic scheme is to sit there, grimly hacking away in the mediocre middle; helping to form a dreary collective yardstick against which better men and women than you can be measured.  


And if ''that’s'' not sobering enough, at least half of you should be pleased you have made it even into the middle: fully 50% of the exceptional are the exceptionally dim, dull and slow-witted. There, but for the extreme hopelessness of some other poor soul, go you.
And if ''that’s'' not sobering enough, at least half of you should be pleased you have made it even into the middle: fully 50% of the exceptional are the exceptionally dim, dull and slow-witted. There, but for the extreme hopelessness of some other poor soul, go you.
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