Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality

By Vince A Stone

In this hilarious satire of the prosperity and excellence industry, Stone examines how mediocrity affects all aspects of life. He offers a simple solution for those trying to overachieve. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982129009
• ISBN13: 9780982129005
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Sterling Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Helps the reader restrain his or her ego while remaining focused on being as capable as he or she ca

Not everyone is going to be a rock star with thousands of adoring fans. "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity: Making Peace with Reality" is an inspirational de-inspirational guide. Not everyone is going to be the absolute best, writes Vince Stone, and sometimes realizing that is the best way to make peace with oneself. A self-help manual that doesn't believe in you, "Embracing Your Inner Mediocrity" helps the reader restrain his or her ego while remaining focused on being as capable as he or she can humanly be.

It's Actually Well Above Average

This book is surprisingly very good from someone embracing mediocrity. The book is all about accepting our mediocrity. We always hear from the sports champion how "you can achieve anything if you just try hard enough." Well, that is just not true. You have to have the natural talent plus try hard. Stone makes a great point about golf. No matter how hard he practices, he is not talented enough to be a PGA professional. Now, I am a believer in hard work, but accepting where your talent level is important. Stone does a great job in explaining how it is ok to be average and it is even healthy and smart not to overdue (misspelled intentionally) it. He says that if you don't have money, looks, talent or personality, you just need to accept who you are and to stop wasting time on pipe dreams. The book bounces back and forth a bit as to whether you should take him seriously or not, but it's a fun read and it's somewhat hard to criticize him since he openly admits his mediocrity. At the end, he gives a funny exam to see if overachievers have gotten the message. He even put in a fake diploma to photocopy for those who have "Embraced Their Mediocrity." The concept was cleverly done if not entirely new. Highly recommended.

Reality check from an overachiever

This is well written reality check for those of us who tend to be in the overachiever catagory. Helps reflect what is important in life and not to sweat the small stuff. I want to get copies for my friends and coworkers. I husband also really enjoyed this book.

Embrace It!

Before I had even read the Introduction to Stone's book, I was laughing at the diagram of The Mediocrity Curve, in which "average folks" fill out the middle: you & me, most of your family, your co-workers, your spouse, your home, your bank balance, your body, your friends, and your future, and Stone devotes chapters to most of these topics. On the left end is the "below average crowd," consisting, for example, of people who watch The View, the Detroit Lions, drug addicts, and wrestling fans, among others; at the right end of the curve is the "excellent crowd," consisting of yacht owners, tiger woods, ladies on The View, and yard-obsessed neighbors. Stone has a new and funny take on `slackers,' and he includes personal stories to make his insights more real. He might offend some people, but he'll make most people laugh. The Wal-Mart chapter alone is worth the price of the book!

Quick, Funny, A Must Read !!

This book is laugh-out-loud funny! You get from looking at the cover that this guy doesn't give a rip but its actually very good. He says in the beginning that the book has lots of errors and I did find some because I'm an admitted overachiever. He hit me between the eyes on a lot of points and believe it or not, I've found myself thinking about what he said while I was at work. I want to give one to my boss!