The concept of measure expresses a specific sense of being mediocre. Measure and prosperity. A mediocre person often is a prosperous rich man. We don't mean has more than others, we mean, he has enough for what he does and what he aspires to. If we imagine the way of life prosperous and mediocre people live, they identify everything with some measure and this measure is their fundamental for understanding the sense of life. If something that doesn't fit their measure appears, they make efforts in order to redress the balance. Mediocre people live according to their measure, they make plans according to their measure. That is, they may plan not according to their ambitions or wishes, but according to things that connect them with the world, with the way they understand connection of all good and important. William James, a famous American psychologists, determined the following formula of self-respect. It is very simple. Self-respect equals success divided by pretension. According to this formula, no matter how much you have reached, if your pretension are higher, your level of satisfaction will be lower. If your achievements are higher, but your pretensions went higher either, your self-respect level will be quite higher. Sometimes it seems that we cannot achieve a lot and in this case, we should reduce our pretensions, that is the psychological sense of being mediocre. Ones touch on mediocrity not only to keep self-respect but also to succeed. For example, today the Internet is full of recommendations on how to become rich. Let's not claim they are true, but it's that they are based on studies of rich and prosperous people's lives. These recommendations themselves give us some information. If we examine a special aspects of the way rich and poor people live, we will noticed the rich allegedly consider themselves creators of their lives while the poor think they go with the flow, they cannot change anything and they tried to find reasons and excuses for such beliefs. However, a lot of great acknowledged people confess that they had never been self-confident and they never could have realized what they planned. Alexander Solzhenitsyn on his 80th birthday admit that he never could realize his plans, always something happened to distract him. However, looking back, he understood that he could not have wished himself a better life than he had been living and if everything he had desired would've come true, his life would be worse. Such kind of acceptance of their lives is typical for genius and talented people who fulfill over standard, over rational fundamentals. Simply successful people are literally mediocre, and in virtue of their mediocrity, they are self-confident and confidence in the fact that they have enough means to realize their plans. Discourse about the rich and poor also said that rich people work to earn income while the poor keep body and soul together to receive enough money to survive. However, if we carefully ask some questions of our fundamentals, for example, why should my income increase? Why should I work in order to earn more? Because increasing income indeed has price in life. Why are there so many poor people who are not aspiring to higher income? It connects with the fact that so-called poor people value their way of life a lot and they work not for some abstract income but for keeping their way of life, for gaining a foothold in it, and probably for bequeathing it. In this sense, working for income is a form of being mediocre. It is said that rich people determine concrete actions to become rich while the poor only dream about being rich. We can probably specify this point in the following way. The rich really use means, they find them out, and they see them, and don't neglect them. The poor and unsuccessful instead pay too much attention to their own specific features initiatives and desires. They neglect means and neither arrive at effective actions. The rich are considered to have an open mind and great plans, while the poor look upon the world narrowly, the rich are open to new ideas while the poor concentrate in concrete circumstances and difficulties. What does it mean to have an open mind? In our context, it means, to pay attention to means, to master new means, to extend the boundaries of your mediocrity, and to aspire to new horizons of it. Finally, one of the most spectacular features is the fact that poor people work for money while rich people work up to a certain point after which, money starts working for them. It is a quite precise description of the sense of mediocrity. Means and money start working themselves, they become not only useful, but they start to exist on their own. It is not a rich person who serves money, but money that serves a rich person. It is good if we're speaking about richness in a good sense, if we don't mean mercantile thirst, but that a person reached a sufficient level of prosperity. Often a naive idea is that a rich person is one who aspires to richness. Although if we understand the point deeper, we see that a really rich person is one who already doesn't aspire to richness. A psychologically mentally rich person often becomes rich in all other senses including the economic one while a mentally poor person stays poor even if he has a lot of money or material benefits.