30/09/2025
I was watching a video of AFL, and he said something that hit me differently. He said,
“You can’t correct excellence if you don’t know what it is.”
At first, it sounded simple. But the more I thought about it, the more it sank deep.
I remembered moments in my own journey when people tried to “correct” me, sometimes in my photography, sometimes in my personal growth. And honestly, I realized some of those corrections were coming from people who had never experienced what true excellence in that field looked like. They meant well, but without understanding the standard, their words couldn’t sharpen me.
It’s like telling a chef how to season food when you’ve never really tasted a well-prepared meal, or trying to adjust a photographer’s shot when you don’t even understand lighting and composition. You end up speaking from assumption, not from experience.
Excellence isn’t perfection, it’s a standard. It’s a culture of discipline, detail, and distinction. And once you encounter it, you’ll never confuse it with mediocrity again. But if you’ve never known it, you won’t even recognize when it’s missing.
That statement from AFL reminded me that exposure is powerful. Until you’ve seen excellence, you cannot correct it. You can’t refine it. You can’t multiply it.
So my takeaway is this: Don’t just talk about excellence, seek it, learn it, and live it. Because the moment you truly know what excellence is, your life, your work, and even your corrections will carry more weight.
MacChizi Of Pitakwa
