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

'''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 all going to pushing up daisies before the century is out. But many of you will have surpassed your 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 hopeless as you are.

'''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. Three quarters of you ''can’t'' be. 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 can be measured. And if ''that’s'' not sobering enough, at least half of you should be faintly relieved to have made it even ''that'' far. There are as many exceptionally dim people as there are good ones, and there, but for the excessive credulity of someone else, 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 comparatively small, and you judge them by reference to the big dull lump between them. If you take inspiration from the pearls [[LinkedIn]]’s [[thought leader]]s and influencers cast before the collective sty, our money says, whoever you are, you’re not at the ''good'' end of the talent distribution.