Feeling Better
“Good, Better, Best” discussions will always be arguments without winners because all those terms describe opinions.
But we DO deem people as better than us in certain areas and our opinion is backed up by lots of other opinions and it almost seems like the truth.
What makes someone better in our opinion? There are lots of answers to that question – education, skill, know-how, intelligence, practice, stick-to-itiveness, etc. We can go down a number of paths to pursue an answer.
The answer I continually come up with is passion. When I judge someone better than me at something we have relatively equal skills and knowledge about, I find passion at the core of their “betterness.”
My hobby is photography. I’ll never be as good as some people I’ve encountered with more, equal or less skills than me because I lack their passion. They eat, drink and sleep photography, but for me it’s just something I like a lot.
Passion will make you better.
So the objective is to find your passion and you’ll find that you get better.
As Robert Frost offered in his poem, “Two Tramps In Mud Time“:
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Passion is a uniting force and provides focus to your skill set.
If you’re the competitive type, passion, over time, will lead you to more wins than skill ever will. Skills will diminish but passion has staying power. Pursue your passion and watch yourself leave others with more skills in the dust.
But in the end, it’s not about winning per se, it’s about feeling better about yourself at the end of the day. Passion is the elixir that makes that happen.
All the best,
John
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