Anyone who has rowed a boat in a river or the sea knows that to return to the starting point, you must constantly keep rowing. If you take your eyes off for a moment, you’ll be carried away by the current, and no matter how hard you row, you won’t make progress. The same goes for life’s work. You may have been in the middle at first, but if you stay idle, you will fall behind so much that you can’t even catch up to the middle.

Yes, indeed.

We compromise with ourselves, thinking “I’m not that bad” or “This much is good enough.” In a world full of people intensely focused on self-development, just staying still and hoping to be average is a childish notion. I believe a spirit of challenge that surpasses who you have been until now is necessary.