What Is Excellence?
Dethroning common misconceptions
4 min readOct 22, 2020
Let’s begin with what excellence is NOT.
Excellence is not perfection. That’s simply because perfection is a myth. It can never happen. Chamath Palihapitiya is quoted as saying, “We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short term signals: Hearts, likes, thumbs up. We conflate that with value…