A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 10
“If I try my best each time, I get to be the best that I have ever been. The moment I try again, I create a new best for myself. So I don't do anything to the best of my ability alone, but to that new best, each time.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 10
The walk-through
“Do your best” usually means reaching a fixed ceiling. Innocent turns it into something that keeps moving. Each real attempt raises the bar: “My best effort becomes one of my worst, as soon as I make another effort.”
So the standard you answer to doesn’t exist yet — you make it by trying. Not your best as a known limit, but a new best, every time.
The scale is a single day. Better than you were yesterday; better again by tonight. Multiply that across months and years, and the small daily gain becomes a life of progress. The only person you’re competing with is who you were this morning — and because that best can always be re-made, it’s always yours to make.
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