Greatness Article

“Greatness doesn’t come in the short term. It’s a long, arduous and often excruciating process”. (Deming A5) This is a great statement written by Luke Draper in the article “Consistency, work prevent mediocrity”. Deming is a passionate student at Davenport University. His article talks about the deference between consistent students and mediocre students. It talks about how the author perceives the last two weeks of each semester when students start going to the library to study for the exams. It also discusses the students who started to work out at the gym right before spring break wanting to get a “beach body”.

The article points out that students who only study for the exams last minute will never be great students to their full potential. For greatness to be achieved persistence in ones work is needed. Greatness comes when you prevent yourself to have fun, when there are more important things needed to be done. The author believes that if the students want to stand out they must not wait until the last moment to study or start working out, they need to consistently do it the whole year. In the last few weeks of each semester the author only sees ordinary students trying to be great. He thinks that because of the absence of consistency will only lead to mediocrity.

According to the author, there are three kinds of students in which he has noticed. These students include exceptional, average, and below average. Deming distinguished between all three kinds of students based on whether he saw them at the library and in which time of the year.

He believes that the key of consistency is “to put in work from the start to the end of the semester”. (Deming A5)

The author displays his pride of being a “resident” of the library. He states that the regular student of the library may feel threatened at the end of the semester by “exam crammers". Feelings of being angry when his favorite place has been taken by these people come to the authors mind to describe the experience.