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The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective

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Re: The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective

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post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And maybe more relevant, but what are the factors that cause someone to have strong willpower and perseverance, and were those under their own control? And that's the question, isn't it? Depending on where you draw your battery limits, you can take credit (and responsibility) for absolutely everything, or absolutely nothing. To quote Tim Minchin, from his speech to UWA grads: > Remember it’s all luck. You are lucky…

But then, you didn't really make the part of you that make you humble.

Humility is not a line in your genome, it's a decision.

Re: The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective

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post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then, you didn't really make the part of you that make you humble.

Humility is not a line in your genome, it's a decision.

I have no way of knowing if that's true or false; mine was just a reply to:

> [..] but I didn’t make the bit of me that works hard [..] understanding [that] will humble you

with the half-serious logical extension: if the "bit of you that makes you prone to work hard" is inherited then perhaps also the "bit of you that makes you prone to be humble" can be inherited as well.

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