[PeterPrinciple]

that’s what we tell young people. “Oh, you’re OK the way you are.” … There’s nothing worse … you can tell someone who’s young than that, especially if they’re miserable.

Lots of them, if they’re miserable and aimless, it’s like, “Oh, I’m miserable and aimless and sometimes I’m suicidal and I’m nihilistic and I don’t have any direction … in my life.” It’s like, “Well, you’re OK the way you are.” It’s like they don’t want to hear that. They want to hear, … “You’re useless. You know nothing, you haven’t got started. You’ve got 60 years to put yourself together and God only knows what you could become.”

---

The words I heard as a kid were, “You can do better than this.”

But I was never told specifically what, so I tried to do better in everything.

“You can do better than this” is a hate message in todays world but say it anyway...………………………..

[imardmd1]

In the study hall of my little high school, there was a sign above the proctor's desk that I have never forgotten:

If you do less than your best,
you fail.

The best challenge I've ever seen. It's not about "the best" or somebody else's best. It's about one's own best.

[alternatives?]

“You can do better than this.”

The problem is today is better is define as protesting or talking instead of doing. They want virtue on the cheap. If you want a zero admissions car, build one. If you want to eliminate using fossil fuels. Then don’t you use them.