Most of us are mediocre. Even the most talented are mediocre because their talent is partial, limited, narrow. A gift doesn’t lift you out of mediocrity. A painter may paint the most beautiful pictures but they are still a mediocre person because they hunger after fame, after the recognition of society, wanting to be rich, known, famous. This all indicates the petty, shallow, mediocre mind, though gifted with a talent. And most of us have neither great talent nor great capacity of thought. Perhaps it’s just as well because then we are eager to find out, to search out, to inquire. But the man who has committed himself to something refuses to inquire into anything except proceeding along the lines he has chosen.