Mediocrity and thinking.

Usman Bhai says the following on his Orkut profile: "I hate mediocrity. Hence, I hate myself." Now Usman, an old friend is one the world's few original thinkers after Descartes (note that I limit myself to criticising other's views.).. and it must be said that he is not, in fact, mediocre. So why does he think that he is? Is it that he has standards that cannot ever be met, no matter what the effort put it? If that is the case, then this is something that we should all aspire to. Or if we wanted to be really obtuse here.. we could say that we need the world to put things into perspective. That is a thought indeed.