Last Monday, the iconic comic book author Stan Lee passed away. In collaboration with others at Marvel, he co-created popular fictional characters: Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Ant-Man and others. On his death the term, ‘excelsior!’ was trending on twitter.
Stan Lee had used ‘Excelsior!’ as his signature sign-off line for decades, and it fundamentally infused the comic book industry's collective subconscious. ‘Excelsior!’ is also the name of Stan Lee's autobiography. Lee, when asked, would define the word as meaning ‘onward and upward to greater glory.’
‘Excelsior!’ is an inspirational thought. It is about not resting in erstwhile magnificence. It is about moving ahead to take on greater challenges. It is about progressing beyond the best of performances to greater glory. It is about living a life like Lee, constantly embarking on newer initiatives and creatives.
So often, so many of us allow the burden of previous performance to weigh us down into a comfort zone of relaxing and resting in the achievements in the past. True living is to stretch out of that complacence. Even after surmounting a peak, we must move on to scale newer peaks… onward and upward to greater glory… Excelsior!
On laurels do not halt to relax and rest
Excelsior! Move on to better your best!
~ Pravin K Sabnis
Stan Lee had used ‘Excelsior!’ as his signature sign-off line for decades, and it fundamentally infused the comic book industry's collective subconscious. ‘Excelsior!’ is also the name of Stan Lee's autobiography. Lee, when asked, would define the word as meaning ‘onward and upward to greater glory.’
‘Excelsior!’ is an inspirational thought. It is about not resting in erstwhile magnificence. It is about moving ahead to take on greater challenges. It is about progressing beyond the best of performances to greater glory. It is about living a life like Lee, constantly embarking on newer initiatives and creatives.
So often, so many of us allow the burden of previous performance to weigh us down into a comfort zone of relaxing and resting in the achievements in the past. True living is to stretch out of that complacence. Even after surmounting a peak, we must move on to scale newer peaks… onward and upward to greater glory… Excelsior!
On laurels do not halt to relax and rest
Excelsior! Move on to better your best!
~ Pravin K Sabnis
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