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HOW TO BECOME EXTRAORDINARY

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When I was growing up, the first quote I grew to know goes thus "Great men are ordinary men with extraordinary achievements". It was written on the wall of our classroom, I did not know who wrote it, not even the author, but I loved it. Later on I began to analyze the quote, the word extraordinary looks so big, but this is achieved by mere ordinary men. This means those that achieve extraordinary things are just men like you and I, they are not super humans. In my write-up about fear of criticism, I wrote about Mohammed's extraordinary achievements and how he found Islam, but someone argued with me, saying he is not ordinary man, that he's higher human being. That was only coming from religious bigotry. Mohammed was no higher human being, he was like every other person, but his achievements stood him out. Since Mohammed was human, nothing makes him higher human. There is no such word as higher human being, you are either human being or not. The differ...