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Business Daily: How to be mediocre

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28/05/2021 GMT

How to be mediocre

BBC World Service - Business Daily, How to be mediocre

Not everyone can be special, so should we embrace our mediocrity?

Is there any point in striving to be the best?

Not everyone can be special, so should we embrace our mediocrity?

In a programme first broadcast in August 2016, Manuela Saragosa investigates the appeal of being average. She talks to mediocrity advocates and bloggers Krista O'Reilly-Davi-Digui from Alberta in Canada, and Mark Manson in the US. But what happens when whole societies embrace mediocrity at the expense of excellence? Italian philosopher Gloria Origgi explains the concept of "kakonomics'" - the economics of being bad.

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