Trying Your Best

In this post, I shall offer a pessimistic (yet very relevant) view of the cliche phrase : "trying your best".

Essentially, I disagree with the key idea that win or lose, succeed or fail, what matters the most is that you have tried your best.

Here's the point worth debating.

The fact that, after you have given your best shot at a specific challenge, and yet still encountering failure at the end of it all, goes on to prove one thing : Your best is simply not good enough. Your best is simply not on par with the bare basic requirements to be a winner. Your best is still shit.

And because your perceived "best" showing has failed, it goes to show that your maximum prowess is still inadequate, way too weak, with lots of room for improvement . Ultimately, it suggests that you are still extremely incompetent.


The point is, when you fail, you cannot say you have tried your best. You never can. And you should never ever be content, telling yourself that you have already done your utmost best. Never be pleased with yourself. Always demand more and more and more. Because you can never reach your best standard. You can always beat and better yourself. Your best is something like a mirage, a mental/physical fantasy. You can never reach it, but you just have to keep working your damn ass off towards your destination.

So you are saying you have tried your best? Nonsense. It is useless. Your efforts are absolutely futile in the sense that you have failed in the present outcome. But it comes in handy since it aids in your never-ending quest to further upgrade and develop yourself.

And you can only say you have done your best, when you have won, attaining success in your objectives. If not, fuck off, suck it up and go work harder. Go beat them.

To summarize, you are never good enough when you fail. You are only good enough, and have proven that you have indeed tried your best, WHEN YOU WIN. So go on and better your best.




Peace.