Believe this: You are exquisite. You are exceptional. You are limitless.: Difference between revisions

Believe this: You are exquisite. You are exceptional. You are limitless. (view source)

Revision as of 14:57, 27 May 2020

97 bytes added , 27 May 2020

no edit summary

Amwelladmin

Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators

81,821

edits

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 Really, you aren’t.
-'''You’re limited''': However exquisite you may be, you’re ''definitely'' not limitless: you have two arms, two legs, a limited concentration span, you can’t multi-task and you’re going to be pushing up daisies before the century is out. Sorry, fella: you have a shelf-life, so make the most of it. But many of you already will have. You’ve surpassed your own level of incompetence and ought to be more grateful than your [[LinkedIn]] feed suggests you are that no-one’s 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.
+'''You’re limited''': However exquisite you may be, you’re ''definitely'' not limitless: you have two arms, two legs, a limited concentration span, you can’t multi-task and you’re going to be pushing up daisies before the century is out. Sorry, fella: you have a shelf-life, so make the most of it.
-'''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 faintly relieved to have made it even into the middle: half of the exceptional are the exceptionally dim, dull and slow-witted, and there, but for the excessive credulity of someone else, go you.
+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 not exquisite. Not in a good way, at any rate''': The internets tell us that [[exquisite]] is means “''extremely'' beautiful and delicate; intensely felt.” Certainly, sensibilities on [[LinkedIn]] are uncommonly delicate, we don’t think that’s quite the sense of “exquisite” you had in mind.
+'''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.
+'''You’re ''not'' exquisite''': Not in a good way, at any rate. The internets tell us that [[exquisite]] is means “''extremely'' beautiful and delicate; intensely felt.” Certainly, sensibilities on [[LinkedIn]] are uncommonly delicate, we don’t think that’s quite the sense of “exquisite” you had in mind.
 The thing about extremes is that they are a comparative minority, and you judge them by their distance from the big dull lump in between. The lump where, most likely, you and I will pass our days. If you take inspiration from the pearls [[LinkedIn]]’s [[thought leader]]s and influencers cast before the collective sty, the smart money says, whoever you are, you’re not at the ''good'' end of the talent distribution.