It can sound dull until hard times fall on you or your society and you learn that ordinary achievements are not to be derided.
The opposition that Wangyot and other trans women athletes face is due to the perception that they are men invading women's sport, rather than the reality of their ordinary achievements.
Through 25 years of teaching Stanford University's famed Personal Creativity in Business course, Michael Ray discovered that people who move beyond ordinary success and achievement have a secret: They live for a "highest goal" that drives them to accomplish their dreams, find fulfillment, and become generative leaders.
That's why he did radio broadcasts and introduced the OBE and the CBE to honour ordinary people's achievements".
There are ordinary geniuses, whose achievements one can imagine others might have emulated, so long as they worked extremely hard and had a dollop of luck.
While Americans tend greatly to value socioeconomic achievement, being ordinary or average is generally seen as a positive attribute.
Student achievement is ordinary, we are widening the gaps between the haves and have-nots, too much money is spent at the advantaged end, the strugglers are increasingly corralled together, inequity is on the rise.
Phillips chose to write about "the incredible achievement of ordinary people who work and work just to get by and to do the best for their families," which may appeal to toiling hacks too.
PAGE A18 Op-Ed BOB HERBERT A documentary about the women's peace movement in Liberia spotlights the achievement of ordinary people who were moved to act with great courage and commitment.
This was our opportunity to celebrate not just the winners, but the achievements of ordinary civil servants everywhere.
