it’s hard enough to strive to be your best; it’s even harder to accept that, despite your efforts, you’re likely going to be average anyway.
still, that should never stop us from trying. we should try to get better, together. and that means we must all try to be “positive deviants” by understanding our performance, reflecting on it, and improving on it, both through better preparation and better improvisation.
the review i wrote on goodreads was longer. oh well.