Flaws in the Current

At the weekend I had the great displeasure of hearing this bloke say to an audience (in an Oprah-like fashion);

“Greatness is already in you. All you have to do is remove the barriers that are stopping you being great.”

I disagree.

Greatness requires talent, drive, inordinate amounts of hard work, and good luck.

Or bad luck, depending on where you’re coming from.

Often the drive required for greatness is motivated by an early (in life) lack of self esteem.

As self esteem is established the need for achieving greatness should diminish. It’s just a means to another end.

After all, the drive for greatness is very much rooted in the existential fear of not existing.

The fear is strong in some, so strong that it overrides the comfort of inertia.

Inertia is the path of least resistance which unfortunately for many leads them to depart their lives with exactly the same fears that accompanied them into the world.

Failing to address the fear of not existing, in my world view, leads to an ‘F’ on St Peter’s report card.

What the guru should have said to the people is;

“The fear is already in you. All you have to do is remove the barriers that are stopping you from not fearing non-existence.”

Back to the others, the ones that do achieve so called greatness; I tend to take no notice of them.

I just assume that they are all critically flawed.

I guess there’s going to be the odd character that achieves greatness through no fault of his or her own, or posthumously (when, for example, they are unable to delete their social media pages).

So I suppose I would have to cut these guys some slack. But there’s so few them that I’m pretty comfortable making them collateral damage, all Utilitarian like and all.

I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t care a jot.