Excellence scales incrementally; mediocrity scales exponentially. In any organization, team, or endeavor, a small handful of people drive most of the outcomes. This reality is often explained by Price’s Law: the square root of the total number of people accounts for half the results. In a group of 100, it is not 50 who are moving the needle; it is 10. The difference is not luck or raw talent, but a decision. It is focus, discipline, intentionality, and an unwillingness to settle for average effort. Most people do not care enough to become more than average, but that is a choice. There is almost no competition at the top, so make up your mind today to be one of the fantastic few, not one of the marginal many.