Why The Plurality Remains As 'AVERAGE'?

 

So, WHY is it a plurality [if NOT a majority] of us remain 'AVERAGE [despite all the breakthroughs, motivations and pushing from all sides]?  Studies showed that there are people WHO seem to be in the right place at the right [and sometimes perfect] time.  LIKE everything works out for them.  LIKE the right breaks, LIKE right opportunities popping up at the right timing, and they even call it those 'ideal moments'.  For some, they call it 'LUCK'📗📙📘📗📙📘

BUT WHAT if we would hear that that is NOT exactly true?  THAT, sometimes to get better results, we DON'T need more effort BUT maybe just a better strategy.  And a few tweaks in the way we think [and act] can even be a catalyst to 'skyrocket' our performance, WHICH is quite 'magical' to come into fruition.  Oh YES, we can stack the odds in our favor and it's NOT even magic.  Instead, it's all about statistics because the numbers will show.  And studies did show that many variables follow a normal distribution and most values do cluster around the middle.  WHILE the extreme cases are outliers📌📌📌

As statistics is beyond my domain, allow me to make reference to researches that consistently show that most cases are centered around the middle.  And the norm is somewhere in between, like average height, average intelligence, average consumption and so on.  We can then use this statistical distribution as an innate mental model to understand the world out there as we assume that most things lie in the middle.  And that's true in some cases💥💥💥

And that's WHEN we all go wrong.  WHICH reminds me of the Pareto Distribution because the normal distribution is quite easier to understand BUT we live in an increasingly complex world.  And in our very tight world, things DON'T always cluster in the middle BUT instead, very often, then tend to concentrate at the extremes.  If we're in a marketing job and will send out an email blast, you could send thousands of generic mails OR send personalized mails💧💧💧

Our takeaway:  Looking back, I can opine that most people only think in averages, metrics and volume.  BUT the real value is WHERE no one's looking, in that corner of the graph WHERE effort and outcome AREN'T proportional.  WHERE a small, smart move yields a massive result.  WHERE one tiny, well-placed action is worth 10, 100 or even 1,000 times more, and that's WHERE the right breaks, right contacts, and perfect opportunities happen at those ideal timings.  And from the outside world, that's WHAT it's dubbed as 'LUCK' but it's more than just the alignment of stars because it behooves that we should kick things for us to go beyond just being an AVERAGE😌😌😌