Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional

You admit that you’d never be satisfied with an average life—you long to excel, and you know it. You acknowledge just how much you thrive by being pushed—you need a challenge or your boredom risks tipping over into a depressive episode. And you stop playing small and denying your gifts—you were born to shine, and you can feel it.

You see, from a young age you’ve been sold a lie. That lie is that you have to be good at everything in order to be ‘good enough’. When you were at school and getting that report card, where was the focus: on the subjects you were great at or the ones that ‘need work’? If you got private tuition was it for subjects at which you were amazing or the

It has become an accepted part of our culture today to believe that we are all destined to do something truly extraordinary. Celebrities say it. Business tycoons say it. Politicians say it. Even Oprah says it (so it must be true). Each and every one of us can be extraordinary. We all deserve greatness. The fact that this statement is inherently con