Excellence, pt. 2—What is the true value of excellence? (WATEC #008)

Wes and Ted answer deeper questions about excellence.
If we agree that excellence should not be an end goal, what should be? Does excellence represent craftsmanship rather than artistry? Is Bill Gates excellent? Is Mark Zuckerberg excellent, or something else? If excellence travels along a linear path (from, say, inept-to-adequate-to-good-to-excellent), what does that imply about the flexibility and utility of it? Is excellence an end-state or a waypoint?
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00:01​ Random discussion about excellence and introduction of Wes and Ted
03:45​ There's a lot of nuance in the word excellence
04:22​ Excellence is an artful juggling of different mental frameworks
07:15​ Excellence is being an accomplished or skilled craftsperson
10:55​ Comfort being the enemy of fulfillment
12:32​ Is excellence built to your psyche a helpful tool?
16:53​ We're behaving as though we live in a one-dimensional world
21:39​ Excellence is between 2 or 3 standard deviations above the mean
24:44​ You shouldn't make excellence your stopping point
27:00​ Move into a realm where you are defining what a better direction is
35:10​ Attempting to achieve excellence in a certain stage of cultural human development
38:00​ What is the thing that you want to get?
42:14​ Situated Cognition
48:40​ Mark Zuckerberg aimed for excellence and kept going in that direction even after achieving it instead of noting that there's a pivot point
50:35​ Excellence is achievable and after achieving it, take a pivot
54:30​ Excellence earns you a seat at the table and what you do with the seat at the table is up to you
58:36​ Part of what makes it beautiful is that you recognize it's a path along a presumably twisty path