Don’t be contended with average, you need to start breaking barriers. If you want to discover your full potentials and start living up to it, then stepping outside your comfort zone will be very paramount, don’t confine yourself within the little sphere, open for opportunity and experience, and see how far it will drive you to the next level. If you are satisfied with average, all your endeavours will revolve around average.
First step is taking yourself seriously, it is of greatest importance. When you are serious with yourself, everything else that have to do with you will fall in place. It means that you are edging close to better days, when you are not contended with outer sketch, you go deeper than that, to grasp the whole experience, that is when life begun to have meaning to you.
Often time, this is borne out of passion. You need to do what you are passionate about, because passion will play a big part in the process. Passion don’t confine around average; it is always deeper than that. Anything you want to do, find it very interesting, don’t feel like you have to impress anyone, do it because, it is borne out of passion.
 If you are a sportsman and you are contended only with what the coach does on the training ground, you will live like an average player. When the passion is borne out, and the drive is there, you go beyond what is done on the training ground, and spend hours trying to improve and be better than you were before, you know there is no room for average.
A student who confines himself with teacher’s notes in the class, is doing himself a huge disservice, you need to go beyond that if you really want to excel. Knowing well that research will be very indispensable, you need to go beyond those notes and embark on a research, with that no room for average.