When most people go into a job or start a business, they think their biggest risk is failure.

But in reality, there is another hazard that can be more perilous than failure. Something totally unexpected. Something much more sneaky.

It's mediocrity.

The risk of having something that's just OK. Not bad enough to obviously fail nor is it good enough to be amazing.

Just mediocre.

The problem, however, is that you're wasting your most valuable asset — time. And that too on something that's not good enough to be amazing.

So if you're the type of a person who wants greatness out of their life, then the biggest risk to you my friend is not failing, it's being just mediocre.

(h/t Shane Puri)