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How to Be Successful
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#32This post embodies everything I dislike about success fluff. I look up to people I admire - Tesla, Nick Drake, Mingus, My highschool Chemistry teacher - they meet maybe 0-3 of the list. Creation of value is such a delicate thing, we should not flatten it that way.
As a side effect, if we widen our view of success, there will be more place up in the 99.9%...
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#33Randall put it pretty well https://xkcd.com/1827/
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#341. Be born to a wealthy middle class family and go to an elite school.
The biggest reason I'm excited about basic income is the amount of human potential it will unleash by freeing more people to take risks.
Until then, if you aren't born lucky, you have to claw your way up for awhile before you can take big swings. If you are born in extreme poverty, then this is super difficult :(
It is obviously an incredible shame and waste that opportunity is so unevenly distributed. But I've witnessed enough people be born with the deck stacked badly against them and go on to incredible success to know it's possible.
I am deeply aware of the fact that I personally would not be where I am if I weren't born incredibly lucky.
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#35It's also very successful, if you have built a stable business and a way of supporting yourself and a few others around you. Being successful doesn't always mean having a 1BN valuation. But sure, it's nice to think that one day, it could happen. I'm just grateful every day that what I've got now - stability and plenty of resources - was a result of pretty much what Sam said. Believing in ourselves and not giving up,…
It's also very successful if you were a stay home parent and your kids were able to succeed thanks to your efforts.
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#361. Be born to a wealthy middle class family and go to an elite school.
Also, there were 18 mentions in the article about "success". Just 1 mention about "failure". Survivorship bias at its best: https://xkcd.com/1827/
I'm curious to hear about people that:
1. worked extremely "hard" for 20 years 2. sacrificed relationships/family/living life 3. found moderate/average success, but never caught a break
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#371. Be born to a wealthy middle class family and go to an elite school.
The biggest reason I'm excited about basic income is the amount of human potential it will unleash by freeing more people to take risks. Until then, if you aren't born lucky, you have to claw your way up for awhile before you can take big swings. If you are born in extreme poverty, then this is super difficult :( It is obviously an incredible shame and waste that opportunity is so unevenly distributed. But I've witne…
What basic income will most likely do is send vast swaths of average people to entertainment and drugs. It's already happening, as social nets get bigger and wider.
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#38A more accurate title for this is "How to Be Financially Successful". I'd love for Sam to write a post called "How to Be a Successful Human" or "How to Live a Successful Life". This more important topic has little-to-nothing to do with financial success.
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
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#391. Be born to a wealthy middle class family and go to an elite school.
not disputing that privilege is a thing, but don't you think that if this were true, all people who are born into a middle-class wealthy family and go to a nice school would achieve outlier success? it could be that the privilege is a pre-req to outlier success, but there are counter-examples. and then, if you observe that both groups (the counter-examples and the people who satisfy the pre-req and achieve outlier su…
The concept of privilege doesn't mean you're automatically successful, nor does it mean it's impossible to become successful without it.
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#40A more accurate title for this is "How to Be Financially Successful". I'd love for Sam to write a post called "How to Be a Successful Human" or "How to Live a Successful Life". This more important topic has little-to-nothing to do with financial success.
>> "How to Live a Successful Life"
This advice need not come from a rich person.
The answer is to be surrounded with deep and valuable human relationships.