Highly Instructive

A youth football league has restricted a player from scoring too many touchdowns because he's just too damn good. While I feel sorry for the boy, it's better that he learn this lesson now. Excellence does not inspire people to try harder or achieve more; quite to the contrary, excellence breeds resentment and motivates people to attack you, either directly or through manipulation of the rules (the latter has become quite popular in the workplace and the political system, for it accommodates cowardice).

You have a choice in life, my young friend: be excellent, or be popular. I hope you choose to anger as many people as you can.