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DRMacIver's Notebook: Norms of Excellence

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I promised people a spicy notebook post, but I decided that actually it was rather rambling and didn't achieve its intended purpose, also I didn't want to write it in the end, so here's a shorter notebook post that achieves its goals better. I wrote before about the social obligation to be bad at things. One of the things that I have been working on recently is trying to figure out what the opposite looks like. What are some moral norms that promote excellence, and how do we embody them? (Yes, I need to read some virtue ethics, no I haven't read more than the SEP entry on it yet. Also this is as much a practice of ethics question). I think this starts from some basic principles: The first two principles are ones I've written about before, they're the desire and safety model: You have to want to be good at the thing, and it has to be safe for you to experiment and find out that you're bad at the thing. That's not to say that you can't feel annoyed, or guilty, or other negative emotional

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