Standards don't collapse overnight. They erode gradually—one small compromise at a time—until "acceptable" stops meaning "good" and starts meaning "barely functional." And somehow, we've agreed to call this evolution.
In this episode, I break down exactly where and how standards have quietly dropped across education, business, personal life, and health. Not through deliberate decisions, but through reasonable-sounding justifications that accumulated into systemic mediocrity.
You'll hear why:
This isn't nostalgia—it's pattern recognition. And if you run a business, lead a team, or simply refuse to accept that "good enough" is actually good enough, you need to understand this mechanism.
The challenge: Find one area where you've quietly lowered your own standards—and decide what it takes to raise them back.
Iconoclast Insights: Where conventional wisdom comes to get questioned.
