What does it even look like to do one’s best?
In grade school, I was told, “Why settle for good when you can do best?”
I carried that idea through the years and worked through life with that frame of thought until doing the best of my abilities became the norm. It’s like doing otherwise is a form of disrespect against myself.
And what fun is there in mediocrity?
The fulfillment you get from accomplishing a task you’re proud to call your own is its reward. Because what gain will you find from doing the bare minimum?
Doing the bare minimum only harms you because as you start to disengage from your work, you eventually train yourself to become lazy and complacent, missing opportunities that will result in stunted growth and stagnation.