Events

I like being on-hand for events, particularly when people are doing things that most people would consider insane. The guy in the red is Nik Wallenda. His entire freaking family does this for a living, and they have for seven generations. How rough do you think it would have been for the "black sheep" of the family to tell his parents that he wanted to go to school for accounting?

Anyway, he broke a record at Kings Island today with a tightrope walk at 262 feet above the ground, for a distance of 801 feet (that's the distance from just outside the Main Entrance to the observation deck on the Eiffel Tower).The rope he's walking on is just slightly thicker than the diameter of a nickel.

In a few weeks he's going to attempt a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon.

I like records. It gives people something to aspire to. We've hit a time where we're actually lowering our standards in order to make everyone feel equal. All this really does is hold back people with exceptional abilities, in order to give the people that lack exceptional abilities a confidence boost. Overall, I'd say that's a bad idea, because it means that the absolute best you strive for is mediocrity. The worst thing about that? Nobody ever excelled at anything while attempting to be mediocre. You don't make amazing discoveries while "just hanging out." You have to work for it!

What have you done lately to excel?