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totallystupid
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About totallystupid
You don't need my comments to help you see clearly, you have everything you already need in what I've written already. Joining those dots is up to you.
The main thing is, your life is up to you, blaming anyone else is just disempowering yourself. It doesn't work. Taking responsibility and choosing to create improvements for yourself does work.
Anything else is just substituting excuses to make yourself feel better, and just substituting an addiction to intoxicating narratives of zero responsibility, for instead of actually getting results.
You can start a company, no matter where you start from.
Oh, it looks hard from where you are? So give up when it looks hard from where you are and you'd rarely be successful anyway.
So persevere and your success is that much cooler, than if you'd peeled away a lesser risk.
The nature of risk, is that it's risky.
In a whole lot of ways it's easier when you have nothing. You're hungrier, more wily, more resourceful, you have less height to fall from. And more to gain. It's more immediate and important. When success and failure is the difference between your next meal, or a place to stay, you'll discover a depth of resourcefulness you didn't know you possessed.
If it's the difference between a Jag and a MacLaren, maybe you don't fight so hard.
So stop making excuses, and pretending you got to be privileged to make it. Buck up, if you want success.
counter narratives to the idea that you can't be an entrepreneurs unless are privileged - Make it work - do more with less - be scrappy - work smart - convert people into believers - convert believers into funders - ... or customers - if your Real Idea takes more than you have, make a Proxy idea to generate money so you can fund your real idea - stop complaining - stop blaming others - take responsibility - it's hard? it's in your mind. if anyone could do it, they would have. you wanted to be special, be a success? so earn it. - expecting success to just be given to you is acting privileged and entitled - it's not what you're given, it's what you choose to do with it that makes you count - risk comfort can be conditioned. so start practicing. - pretending their success is due to privilege is just trying to close the gap between you and them by diminishing your perception of them, instead of by making something that makes you more successful. this makes you feel good, and it doesn't work to get you results
Inspired cheers!
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This is so funny, thank you.
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How did they steal it?
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exactly, who's going to dare to now? and yet still, people try.
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yeah it's far too straightforward and clear to besuit his ostentation.
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If you're a real victim, then you have encountered a force unreasonable to overcome on your own, or you've been the victim of a crime, or both, and then it works to have help from …
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How can people even read this to disagree with it -- wouldn't it be too faded out? o_O
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A person's life is their responsibility. The only thing disingenuous is believing that is not so. A person brings shame upon themselves when they blame others for lack, instead of …
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So go out and make another $5. How you expect to make a 1MM if you can't even make $5. Thank you for reading it, and also stop making excuses. Everyone one else commenting please r…
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Friends! If you find someone trying to criticize your achievement as being "just because you are privileged" say "I'm now further from where I started, than where I started was fro…
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Make a lot of small bets. The investments are not either or. Spend a little time on each thing, and be open to the ones that work for you, choosing you. Regarding the idea which no…
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Your prescription, Sir: A) Ask your parents, family and friends for advice. Maybe they do not know work, and they do know you. B) Call it what it is: Quarter-Life Crisis C) Recogni…
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Yeah maybe I just believed I was being more empathetic while in fact I was only more confident in my belief. They are called psychoactives after all -- how reliable could my report…
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That's strange I've always found low doses have the opposite effect : more empathetic. Perhaps it just impairs performance on the simulators where emotion recognition is tested wit…
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Add fields to the evidence that could correspond to the fields in police information systems.
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Government will become the thing which puts work to tender and decides who gets the contract. Every service will become privatised. Government will converge on what it does best, c…
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are you the Greek PM?
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guess you should have listened to your asian parents and studied harder. sometimes they're onto something.
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Tell HN: A huge correction to startup funding is coming
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if you want generate some humans, use it with latest chrome on desktop.
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latest V8 desktop or android only.
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the last 3 pos i had i "created" them myself by reaching out to people who needed something. one i responded to a job ad and ended up being hired to build something different on mu…
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