Mediocrity

When we came to this world, we knew nothing, after 20 years of living or 30 years of living, we seem to know everything, we have our own opinion of everything. This means that our own opinions of everything are not something we congenitally have prior to or when we came to this world, we learned them along the way we have been living, and we will continue to live forward to learn more things.

If your parents are mediocre people, as most of parents are, the chances are they would imbue you with ideas/concepts/beliefs/views that belong to mediocre living, since it was a long time which spanned many years, those mediocre ideas/concepts/beliefs/views have been deep-rooted in your mind and you even forget  that those ideas/concepts/beliefs/views are actually learned and mistakenly take them as how this world works. We have been used to mediocre living so long that we even don't want to change for a better living because we have become very comfortable to it by getting used to it so long. Once change, it challenges our very ideas/concepts/beliefs/views about reality that we have possessed for so long and been comfortable with, we may feel upset, we may feel uncomfortable. We are mentally used to mediocre living. Our parents would let us understand we could only be able to live a mediocre life, have mediocre means, achieve mediocre goals, marry a mediocre girl, enjoy mediocre happiness and fulfillment and we don't deserve an abundant life, we don't deserve a lot of wealth, we don't deserve a magnificent life, those are what we can merely wish but will never really have.

Therefore, to live an extraordinary life, you have to reclaim that you deserve an extraordinary life and you need to learn to believe that you have the ability to live an extraordinary life.

This may seem intimidating, because from our past experiences, we have already formed an opinion that we don't have that ability to live an extraordinary life. If we had that ability to live an extraordinary life, we would live a much better life now than we are currently living,  that's our reasoning. However, when we think this way, we make a mistake, because our ability is very much bonded to our beliefs. We can only be as capable as we believe that we can be. Our ability is bonded to our ideas/beliefs/concepts/views. Mediocre thinking produces mediocre ability. We simply need to change our thinking/mind to empower our ability, to free up our ability.

We also don't believe that we deserve an extraordinary life. Why? That's because of the drawback of the mind. We may arrogantly believe that we think freely and we have free thinking, but actually all of our thoughts/cognition are simply learned or enlightened by an external source, or simply extended by reasoning from a learned or enlightened thought/cognition. If we can simply grow thoughts/cognition ourselves, we wouldn't need education(Education here including schooling, experiences, reading books, watching TV, listening to radios, or reading this blog, etc.). Simply put, we need someone to tell/enlighten us that we deserve an extraordinary life or experience an experience which tells/enlightens us that we deserve an extraordinary life, obviously our mediocre parents didn't do that to us, or we might have someone occasionally telling us that we deserved an extraordinary life  but in the meantime we had 10 people or even 100 people who told us that we just deserved a mediocre life. We simply learned to forget that occasional incident.

So now you can assert(I enlighten you) that you deserve an extraordinary life. Simply believe that you deserve an extraordinary life is not enough, you have to work to realize it because our life is created by ourselves, therefore you should be willing to change your beliefs/opinions/thoughts so you can possess new beliefs/opinions/thoughts that can nurture high ability.