If you're the person who stays until midnight perfecting a deck that's "good enough" at 6 pm, this is for you.

If you've ever felt a sting of frustration watching teammates clock out while you're just getting started, you're not alone.

If you've questioned why others don't feel the fire you feel, the urgency you feel, the need to push beyond "acceptable", you understand.

They don't teach us that being exceptional is isolating.

You're wired differently. What others see as extra, you see as standard. What they call obsession, you call commitment. Where they draw boundaries, you see limitless possibility, perfectionism, flipping the status quo.

And yes, it's frustrating.

Watching people treat as 'just a job' what you treat as a mission. Seeing them satisfied with mediocre outcomes that leave you restless. Feeling the weight of caring more, pushing harder, wanting it more than anyone else in the room. That frustration? It's the price of being rare.

Most people will never operate at your intensity. They'll never sacrifice what you sacrifice or feel what you feel about the work. And that's not wrong, it's just different.

You are unusual. That's your power. That's also your burden.

The shift isn't lowering your standards. It's accepting that what burns inside you doesn't burn in most others and that's exactly what makes you who you are.

Stay obsessed. Stay relentless. Stay uncommon.

Just don't expect the world to keep pace.