{"id":201,"date":"2020-04-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/?p=201"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:18:28","slug":"quieres-crecer-supera-la-mediocridad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/quieres-crecer-supera-la-mediocridad\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want grow? Overcome mediocrity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As humans, in recent decades, we have been sold the idea that we deserve everything, that we all are \"special\",<\/em><\/strong>that life is just waiting for us to ask for things and it will give us everything, that when we wish for something with our hearts the universe will conspire to provide us with that... but it just doesn\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with assuming ourselves as being special, unique and unrepeatable, is that we feed our ego, we put a barrier before others that makes us believe that no one has the right to tell us that we are wrong; we label ourselves and simply say \"this is who I am, whether you like it or not.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can be very good at something. You may be an expert, you could even have masters and doctorates in one or more fields, yet, there will always be a thousand subjects you are just really bad at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of believing ourselves experts in a subject, we stop learning, we choose to feed our ego day after day, and it begins to grow. We want to give lectures to those we consider \"ignorant\", and we refuse to listen to them instead. I recently heard a speaker who proudly stated, \"I don't attend conferences, I deliver them!\"<\/em><\/strong> And this is the greatest evidence of arrogance and a clear example of how we limit the growth of our brain. It just seems stupid to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? It is simple, if in your 20s, 30s, 50s ... or 80s you think you have nothing else to learn about a subject, at that moment you become mediocre. And the worst thing is that we transfer that particular label to everything in life! Come on, seriously?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are thousands of topics, activities, skills that we just don't master, in which we are lousy, simply mediocre,<\/strong>and if we never accept it, we will never improve. That is why it is said that \"the great goals are achieved by the dissatisfied\",<\/em><\/strong>that is why the great dreams are reached by the rebels, the curious, those who take their passion to the limits where the average does not want to strive, where the label of \"I'm already over the top\"<\/em><\/strong>stops many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My personal mantra is Socrates\u2019 famous phrase \"I know that I know nothing\"<\/em><\/strong>since I would not put my hand in the fire for my own beliefs because I could be wrong. Another expression that I use a lot to keep my ego at bay is \"I am only a human being\",<\/em><\/strong>because I recognize my limitations, but I also strive to be better every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepting that we are simply human<\/strong>that we have a natural tendency to stay in the comfort zone,<\/a>that the labels we put on are rather illustrative and not limiting statements, that we all tend to the path of least resistance<\/a>, recognizing ourselves as mediocre <\/strong>in endless things, and that as long as there is life we can strive to learn and unlearn<\/strong>, we will be able to achieve all the objectives that we set for ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this topic there is a book in particular that I really liked, which addresses the issue of labels and how we should simply eradicate them from our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagen: Freepik.com<\/a> | Usuario: @onlyyouq<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Como humanos en las \u00faltimas d\u00e9cadas nos han vendido la idea de que merecemos todo, que todos somos “especiales”, que la vida est\u00e1 esperando que le pidamos cosas y nos dar\u00e1 todo, que cuando deseamos algo con el coraz\u00f3n el universo conspira para que se nos d\u00e9… pero simplemente as\u00ed no funcionan las cosas. El problema con creernos especiales, \u00fanicos e irrepetibles, es el hecho de que alimentamos nuestro ego, ponemos una barrera ante los dem\u00e1s que nos hace creer que nadie tiene derecho a decirnos que estamos mal, nos etiquetamos y simplemente decimos “as\u00ed soy, si no te gusta ni modo”. Podemos ser muy buenos en algo, quiz\u00e1s eres un experto, podr\u00edas tener maestr\u00edas y doctorados en algunos temas, pero habr\u00e1 mil temas en los que simplemente seas bastante malo. Como resultado de creernos expertos en un tema, dejamos de aprender, decidimos alimentar nuestro ego d\u00eda con d\u00eda y este empieza a crecer. Queremos dar c\u00e1tedras a los que consideramos \u201cignorantes\u201d, y nos negamos a recibirlas. Hace poco escuch\u00e9 a un conferencista que afirm\u00f3 muy orgulloso \u201c\u00a1yo no voy a conferencias, yo las doy!\u201d y esta es la mayor evidencia de arrogancia y un claro ejemplo de c\u00f3mo lim\u00edtanos el crecimiento de nuestro cerebro. Simplemente me resulta una estupidez. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9? es simple, si a tus 20, 30, 50… u 80 a\u00f1os crees que no tienes nada m\u00e1s que aprender de un tema, en ese momento te conviertes en un mediocre. Y lo peor es que trasladamos esa etiqueta en particular a \u00a1todo en la vida!, no chinguen. Hay miles de temas, actividades, habilidades que simplemente no dominamos. En las cuales somos p\u00e9simos, simplemente mediocres. Y si nunca lo aceptamos jam\u00e1s vamos a mejorar, es por eso que se dice que \u201clas grandes metas, las logran los inconformes\u201d, por eso los grandes sue\u00f1os los alcanzan los rebeldes, los curiosos, los que llevan su pasi\u00f3n a l\u00edmites a donde el promedio no quiere llegar, donde a muchos la etiqueta de \u201csoy bien ching\u00f3n\u201d, los detiene. En lo personal tengo un mantra, la famosa frase “solo s\u00e9, que no s\u00e9 nada”, pues no meter\u00eda las manos al fuego ni por mis propias creencias porque podr\u00eda estar equivocado. Otra expresi\u00f3n que utilizo mucho para mantener a mi ego a raya es \u201csolo soy un ser humano\u201d, porque reconozco mis limitaciones, pero tambi\u00e9n busco ser mejor cada d\u00eda. El aceptar que somos simplemente humanos, que tenemos una tendencia natural de quedarnos en la zona de confort, que las etiquetas que nos ponemos son enunciativas m\u00e1s no limitativas, que todos tendemos a la ley del m\u00ednimo esfuerzo, reconocernos mediocres en un sin fin de cosas y que mientras haya vida podemos esforzarnos por aprender y desaprender, seremos capaces de alcanzar todos los objetivos que nos vayamos poniendo. De este tema hay un libro en particular que me gust\u00f3 mucho, que aborda el tema de las etiquetas y c\u00f3mo simplemente debemos de erradicarlas de nuestras vidas. Cr\u00e9ditos Imagen: Freepik.com | Usuario: @onlyyouq<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/elsutiarte.jpg","book_review_title":"El Sutil Arte de que te Importe un Carajo","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"Mark Manson","book_review_genre":"Superaci\u00f3n personal","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"5","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,13,14],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-crecimiento-personal","tag-mediocridad","tag-superacion","main-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ODUD8X0-scaled-e1586046592451.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chavalalo.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}