Escape Mediocrity – How to Stop Wasting your Life

“Many are born; few live. Men without personality are innumerable and vegetate molded by their environment, like melted wax.” José Ingenieros, The Mediocre Man In the early-20th century, the Argentinian philosopher, physician, and essayist José Ingenieros wrote a book titled The Mediocre Man. In it he explores what distinguishes the mediocre masses from those who […] The post Escape Mediocrity – How to Stop Wasting your Life first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

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