Somehow I love the word ‘striving’ in all its due connotations.
In the technologically advanced times, we have to rewire our way of functioning in our work-lives.
While our systems and AI can support us, but we have to rethink what work means when things look unprecedented.
This is where our natural way of functioning will thrive when we infuse excellence with it: think of anything creative that needs our insight and intuition. And even the seemingly mundane chores that can need our ‘human enough’ for it to be sorted.
You see, excellence is also adapting to new demands with careful attention and rigour and placing a degree of ‘essentialism’ (source: Greg McKeown) so that we do things better in its entirety.
We need a new definition of excellence for us to pursue it with full gusto and passion.
Here’s how I view it: Be of service to serve others until it becomes our purpose to be such a person and help the collective thrive. Being better is also, in my view, being different – and that is a hallmark of excellence that lives its legacy in times to come; inspiring others to pursue the same.
So let’s initiate a mindset of servitude so that we almost always do things with our best intentions and love.
Excellence, then, becomes our natural function. And pursuit becomes our innate striving and world building (mentioned by Nathan Baugh in his newsletter: that is, the art of keeping the reader immersed) in why we do what we do.
Let’s claim excellence (as Rajdeep Endow so eloquently mentioned in his LinkedIn post) – and earn our place which the world imminently rewards.
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