We all love working on what we’re good at. It feels good. It feels natural.
Don’t stop doing that. Keep at it. Keep refining, keep optimizing, keep polishing the strengths that make you you.
But…
If you really want to be great (or you’re there already), and you’re just obsessed with improving (like we OG Millennials usually are)...
If you really want to raise the floor, not just the ceiling…
Then you have to improve the worst parts of you.
This is the part most people ignore.
This is also the part that quietly determines your trajectory.
Greatness isn’t just defined by your best days.
Greatness is also defined by your worst days, and just how “bad” your worst actually is.
Why Your Baseline Matters More Than Your Highlights
You’ve heard people say something like:
“Even on their worst day, they’re still better than most.”
In sports, we see this clearly.
Think about players like Kevin Durant, LeBron James, or Steph Curry.
Even on their off nights, bad shooting, low energy, missed assignments, they’re still better than 90% of basketball players on earth, including most of the NBA.
Why?
Not just because their strengths are elite, but also because their weaknesses are still far above average.
Their baseline is high.
Their floor is high.
Their “C-game” is still enough to win.
That’s the real competitive advantage.
A Real-Life Example: When Your Weakest Link Snaps
Imagine you’re disciplined with your work, consistent with your goals, and dialed in…
except for one thing: your emotional regulation.
Everything is going well, until something doesn’t.
A setback hits.
An unexpected problem shows up.
A small frustration derails your entire day.
You don't lose because you lack skill.
You lose because your weakest link couldn’t hold the weight.
The worst doesn’t happen often.
But when it does?
It’s usually quite expensive.
One uncontrolled reaction.
One moment of doubt.
One gap in discipline.
One bad habit left unaddressed.
That’s all it takes for the floor to drop out.
That’s why improving your worst parts matters so much.
Raising Your Floor: The Baseline Strategy
If you spend all your time polishing your strengths, your highs will feel amazing, but your lows will hit hard.
When you deliberately work on your shortcomings, something powerful happens:
Your bad days don’t sink you anymore.
If they do, they aren’t as low.Your off days stop derailing momentum.
You may not move as fast but you’re still moving forward.Your “worst” becomes manageable instead of catastrophic.
It becomes easier to bounce back from the worst.Your average naturally becomes better than most people’s best.
This is when you start making it all look so easy.
This is how you build a baseline that’s unshakeable.
Your A-game won’t always be available.
Life doesn’t work like that.
If you’ve worked on your B-game, C-game, even D-game…
Those versions of you can still carry the load.
And sometimes…
They carry you farther than the A-game ever could, because they’re built on resilience, not talent.
Your Power Move for This Week
Identify one thing you avoid.
One weakness you gloss over.
One part of yourself you know is holding the baseline down.
Chip away at it.
Not to be perfect.
Not to eliminate the weakness entirely.
Just to raise it just enough that it no longer has the power to tank your momentum.
If that seems daunting, just enough to make it not as bad as it once was.
Every time you improve your worst part, even slightly, you raise your entire average.
That’s how you grow.
That’s how you become uncommon.
That’s how you make your “worst day” better than most people’s best.
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