How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

Chapter Forty-four. Don’t step up. Don’t do extraordinary things

Quote to avoid

	“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
	--Gandhi

So as we near the end of this guide, you now know what it takes to be a failure. But here is one almost final thought for you to contemplate. Are life’s success stories about extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, or are they about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Are they about extraordinary businesses doing extraordinary things or plain, ordinary businesses doing extraordinary things?

Here is how someone extremely bright once summed it up: “In my view, wherever you find success, you will find some ordinary person, ...