For what I see, I guess there is a "mini me" inside of every brain...and some of them are stronger than others. Normally, all of us are aware when we tend to obey a hidden force that leads us to failure or mediocrity. If "mini me" wins, we will end up in a miserable poverty and hating ourselves. This is the normal "mini me" pressure to every thinking human.
In my case, the little "mini me" not only tells me things such as: "You can´t do that, you idiot" or.." "That´s not for you, moron". Those lines are easy to overcome, because I am as stubborn as a crazy mosquito that just filtered into your tree house in the amazon river, and it's nagging you in the ear until you cry for some fucking extra strength Raid or at least a rolled up newspaper to kill me with. I am aware that I can be a pain when I put my mind onto something. This is an easy fight. Me: 1 "Mini me":0.
But the truly difficult part is when "mini me" is screwing with us and we don't even see him coming. And it happens that sometimes our worse enemy is when we get arrogant, cocky and we become so full of ourselves, that it's just sickening. This is "mini me"´s masterpiece. Making ourselves believe that we can't get any better because we are sooooo damn good at what we do, that it's virtually impossible to improve anymore.
Well, sorry to dissapoint you. Let me tell you about a real experience I had this week. I confess: I have always thought I was highly skilled for public speaking. Then I went to this training and found out, that I am not bad at all, but I still have a huge room for improvement. Learning new techniques, new skills is always a big rush for the head, but most of all, for the heart. I am really glad I went to school again. It helped me forsee how my decisions and attitude will determine my future.
I learned that the dumbest mistake a human can make, is to think he has mastered something. You can be devilishly good, but you can ALWAYS improve. Of course, making it better will suffer economies of scale, but those small improvements for someone who is already well thought on any matter, will be noticeable and will polish our performance over and over again. These extra efforts will separate the artists from the competents. The memorable from the "very good". Or the man from the boys ( I always wanted to write that!!)
There is always room for excellence. For being memorable. But most importantly, there is always room for giving ourselves the chance of being amazed of where we can extend our competencies and skills if we make our pride aside for a couple of days and focus on learning something new.
You are better than you think. I am better than I used to think I was. And from now on, I will make sure I don't forget this.
Be careful "mini me", I'm coming after you!
Aureliano García
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