The excellence in what we don't see
Summary
Since we are a company that develops software to help organisations recognise excellence in their field, the cartoon was both apt and thought-provoking. The winner’s podium shows us reward, elation, and success but hidden in a pyramid of adversity below is the effort required to get there. It’s easy to look at high performers and underestimate the effort they’ve put in and instead blanket-brush them with black and white descriptors: “He is smart, that’s why he is successful”, “her dad helped her start her company” or “he is well-connected”, and so on. If you want to do something worthwhile, add to the current and future human experience, or even just master the art of something small and insignificant – it will take a mountain of hard work. In recognising extraordinary human achievement, we need to acknowledge this mountain and all the unseen challenges beneath the podium.
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