Robert Urbanek
Platinum Member
. . . the enemy of greatness is not crap; the enemy of greatness is “very good.” You have to hammer, exhausted, through “very good” to get to greatness, according to Bono, as interviewed in the December 2022 issue of The Atlantic.
As a world-renown entertainer, Bono and his band U2 can easily measure greatness by critical and popular success. But how can the rest of us judge whether we have achieved greatness? Can we be “great” but never be acknowledged? Most of us would be flattered if we were simply acclaimed as “very good.”
As a world-renown entertainer, Bono and his band U2 can easily measure greatness by critical and popular success. But how can the rest of us judge whether we have achieved greatness? Can we be “great” but never be acknowledged? Most of us would be flattered if we were simply acclaimed as “very good.”