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I'm a big fan or author/cartoonist/blogger Hugh MacLeod and this cartoon of his struck a chord as it relates to the Antidote.  He provides commentary included below:

We like to kid ourselves that a grey, listless life of mediocrity is fine and dandy, so long as we're being paid well enough.

Of course, that's mistaken. And of course, we don't fully understand THE TRUE HORROR of believing that mistake till it's far too late; till most of our life (that could have striven for something better) is already used up.

I interpret his message not that we settle for mediocrity but that we wallow in mediocrity with the illusion we will ever achieve some intangible greatness.  Instead, how can we find ways to identify successes we are capable of achieving, not how someone tells us we should be great.
 
Check out Hugh's site at http://www.gapingvoid.com/
 
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