How do you handle mediocre people?

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How do you handle  mediocre people?  

The worst case is that they are everywhere around you.

You have nowhere to escape. 

They are kind-hearted.   They are for your own good.   But they will not allow you to go anywhere.

If you are a scientist,  you need to hide away inside your own personal laboratory,  until one day you discovered something.

But sometimes you do not have places to hide.

You can only hide it inside your own brain.

It's like a music orchestra conductor.  He has to use mediocre  people.   He has to follow the mediocre people.  Or else he needs to push behind them.

Sometimes he would think:  it is better for me to do your job.

You have to start from scratch.  You have to teach them hand by hand.

It is not like war years. 

They would die for the country in war years.   But now they would steal money from your open pocket.

How are you to handle mediocre people?

You cannot hire a teacher to teach them.

You must be the teacher yourself.

You must be brave enough to replace them because they will replace you instead.

To be surrounded by a group of mediocre people is like floating in the sea. 

They were your life jacket ....... you can float, but never go.

And they can turn themselves into killing at any time.

They are not a safe device but a time bomb.

Keep away from mediocre friends, if you can.