Reminder to be awesome at what you do:
Some time in 1959, I received a letter from an American professor of psychology, Abraham H. Maslow, enclosing some of his papers. He said he had read my book The Stature of Man, and liked my idea that much of the gloom and defeat of 20th century literature is due to what I called ‘the fallacy of insignificance’. Maslow said this resembled an idea of his own, which he called ‘the Jonah complex’.
One day, he had asked his students:
‘Which of you expects to achieve greatness in your chosen field?’
The class looked at him blankly. After a long silence, Maslow said:
‘If not you—who then?’
And they began to see his point. This is the fallacy of insignificance, the certainty that you are unlucky and unimportant, the Jonah complex.
– Colin Wilson "New Pathways in Psychology"
