The older you are the less time you have The less time you have the smaller your largest future project The smaller your largest future project the less you must know The less you must know the fewer the details that can trip you up So you can pay less attention as you age!
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You can be bad at ordinariness and mediocrity though. Especially if you confuse it for a Plan B in relation to a Plan A to be extraordinary. It’s like trying to run a car on rocket fuel. Bad idea. Can’t run ordinariness on will-to-power thymos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumos
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I’m not sure what the right fuel for ordinariness is. Probably something like absurdity.
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Everyone wants to be Holmes, but being Watson is not a failure to be Holmes. It’s its own, messier thing.
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So what's an example of someone who does it well and someone who does it badly? What does the quintessential ordinary person look like?
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