Tim Ferriss calls Kevin Kelly the real-life "Most Interesting Man in the World."
Yet for all his accolades, Kelly doesn't see himself as great. That's the trade-off he chose to make:
"What trade-offs have you had to make in order to be Kevin Kelly?"
Kevin: "You're not gonna like this answer. But to be Kevin Kelly, I couldn't be great."
"Let me define great as somebody who might be remembered for a generation or two by people outside their family. In a generation or two, no one will remember my name or anything that I did."
"To be me now, I surrendered that path towards greatness, because I just am not that extreme or fanatical or obsessive about a larger thing."
"I am much more like a gadfly, with lots of little different things going around. And that doesn't cohere into the kind of extremity that you need to be great."
- @kevin2kelly
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