Good and Excellent can never be together!

While introspecting my sorroundings, I realised that mediocricity and excellence can never go together or rather they are mutually exclusive to each other. I also searched for some good material on this issue and I am writing some text which I believe expresses my feelings on the issue very closely. Here you go...............As per my experience, a mediocre is always seeking to find how to exert minimum effort and receive the maximum reward. According to me mediocrity is the enemy of excellence. Mediocricity is one of the greatest philosophical diseases of our culture. It has infected every aspect of our lives and our society. Tragically it is one ideological disease that is eating away the Indian civilisation. Consciously or sub-consciously, people everywhere seem to be asking, "What is the least I can do and still keep my job? What is the least I can do and still get the best placements? What is the least I can do and still get reasonable grades in school? What is the least I can do and still stay physically fit? What is the least I can do...?" The list is long and can go on and on! These are classic cases and one can see this repeating in n number of situations in everyday life in one form or the other.
In most cases its the helplessness that it creates that pulls my mood down!