[ZephyrBlu]

This is written about career/job, but it applies to a whole bunch of different things like relationships, friendships, where you live, etc.

I highly recommend Ben's post dedicated to outliers where he explores this a bit more: https://www.benkuhn.net/outliers/.

> Maybe society would be better off if we stepped back from the always-on, up-or-out culture and accepted that most people are average and (rightly!) value consistency more than upside

Based on how I'm interpreting this you have it backwards. I don't think outlier results with high upside generally benefit from being "always-on" or "up-or-out culture" because that is too far on the exploit side of things to ever find outliers!

My belief is that more slack and time to explore are more likely to produce outliers.