Murphy’s Law: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in catastrophe, then someone will do it.
– Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
Sometimes, it’s good to be pessimistic. If you set low standards, the window for disappointment is nearly zero. You also open yourself up to the chance of multiple successes. Since your bar is low, the probability of achieving and surpassing that bar is very high. A world like this seems to be perfect. People would only know successes. They will no longer have to worry about failing.
Wouldn’t the world be a lot better if everyone had low standards?
Though that seems to be a great world to live in, it still wouldn’t be right. Right in the sense that, yes you are happy because you’re succeeding but you’re not going anywhere.
Let’s say that you have a pet dog. Won’t it be a lot easier if you just keep that dog in a cage? You don’t have to worry about losing your dog or it messing up the house. Won’t that be a lot easier?
Yes! Definitely.
But what would eventually happen to your dog? It can do two things: just stay there and keep quiet or act wildly when you let it out of its cage. Either way, those attitudes are not good for any dog.
It’s good to stay within your comfort zone to avoid disappointments. But for you to grow and maximize your potential you have to constantly challenge your standards and break free from it. You have to constantly strive to be better.
Improve!!! Don’t settle for mediocrity.
Eventually, your comfort zone will become bigger and when that does break free from it again. Push! Keep Pushing! There will definitely be disappointments along the way…but what the Murphy Law is telling us (in my perspective) is that if we want to truly succeed we have to be prepared to fall.
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