My brother and I played basketball together every day growing up. We'd play in our backyard, and we’d also go to friends’ neighborhoods and play in pickup games.
Every so often, we’d meet someone who seemed to have all the goods. 6'5", muscular, all the right gear on, etc.
And then we’d see them play.
They’d lose the ball, miss easy layups and blocks, get pushed around, and other atrocities that would make us roll our eyes.
We had a name for this:
Big for nothing.
As if to say: what’s the point of all that height, all that muscle, all the gear, if you don’t use it?
I meet people who are big for nothing outside of basketball all the time. The most incredible designers and engineers, working at companies who underpay and underappreciate them. People who have 6-figures saved but feel like they can’t afford a vacation. An aunt who’s offered to introduce them to someone who could change their life but they’ve never capitalized on the offer. A pro camera you got as a gift but is sitting unopened in your closet.
Where do you have incredible unfair advantages that you're not taking advantage of?
Don't be big for nothing.
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