# Why you should embrace mediocrity

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxBasel
- Speaker: Crispin Thurlow
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/crispin_thurlow_why_you_should_embrace_mediocrity)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

From "elite" pickles to "premium" baby diapers, marketers are constantly telling us to seek superiority — but "by the simple law of averages, most of us have to live a life more ordinary," says sociolinguist Crispin Thurlow. He invites us to embrace mediocrity for a change, offering a different path to contentedness without comparison.

## Lectures

1. [Why you should embrace mediocrity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/crispin_thurlow_why_you_should_embrace_mediocrity/98f287f778c3), 11 min (TED's player)