Thursday, April 4, 2013

Watermelon Trapezoids


Our wives had given us a very simple task that sunny afternoon.  Cut the watermelon up and bring it out to us on the deck to enjoy in good company.  So in the kitchen, my good friend of many years grabbed a sharp knife and began massacring the fruit.  I mean he cut it into spheres, prisms, even tesseracts.  Looking over at him his answer came quick to the curious look on my face.  He said to me, “Vince…if you do a job poorly enough the first time you will never be asked again.” 

What does it exactly mean to be mediocre? Does this mean a poor snow shovelling job on a neighbors walk, an unmaintained vehicle, or spelling errors in a blog post for that matter are signs of mediocrity?  Going back over the definition of mastery offered by Stewart Emery I am bouncing this around a bit and not sure where I will land.

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2 comments:

  1. Ha you're stori is to funy! I totaly get it about speelin arrows two. And bad gramma.

    And I would suggest landing on your feet and taking off in a full sprint. We will all be cheering you on!

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  2. I like your train of thought. Why is it people take the easy way out? Is it really so hard to do a task thats been asked of us? Does this mean we do mediocre work whenever its a task we think is beneath us? Or is it a lack of respect for the person who asked us to do the task? Sorry..only more questions...

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