Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.
If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.
I didn't have a ton of success as Justin Hawk Bradshaw, but it wasn't a failure, either.
The probable is what usually happens.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.
