“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
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“Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
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Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#2Most of the successful abnormals have deep motivation to do things differently. They may even seem like rebels. If we are fearless & ready to take risks in life, we may be coined as abnormals & there is a chance of success as well.
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#3"they channeled their thoughts toward the fundamental details of having a 'good at-bat.'"
I'll pass.
You can't just use tangential examples of the most successful people. This feels like pop-(pseudo) science.
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#4Most of the successful abnormals have deep motivation to do things differently. They may even seem like rebels. If we are fearless & ready to take risks in life, we may be coined as abnormals & there is a chance of success as well.
Well I fit pretty well on those lines and are not successful by (ab)normal standards anyway
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#5This reads like a very good example of how not to behave if you actually want to be happy
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#6who's a super successful normal person then? I nominate Henry Ford, for no particular reason.
I sort of think people will find something abnormal about any super successful person, a great success implies greatness and strangeness beyond the success.
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#7This reads like a very good example of how not to behave if you actually want to be happy
You imply that what makes you happy makes others happy.
A programmer who obsessively programms random side projects in his spare time is completely engaged with them and likes to do that because he enjoys it on some level.
So if you think that this is worse than watching netflix or wasting time with mundant social interactions...well...I guess that doesn't make you bad.
You're just average.
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#8This reads like a very good example of how not to behave if you actually want to be happy
Maybe so, but a better comment would explain why. Otherwise it just reads as a sort of "nuh-uh", which goes against the HN guideline against shallow dismissals:
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#9This reads like a very good example of how not to behave if you actually want to be happy
Yeah, this sounds like a slightly more demented, self help-ey version of Outliers. The actual bullet points here are less weird than than "be abnormal", they're more pretty standard entrepreneur-oriented self help fare.
Re: “Become Abnormal”: traits to cultivate for top performance
#10"they channeled their thoughts toward the fundamental details of having a 'good at-bat.'" I'll pass. You can't just use tangential examples of the most successful people. This feels like pop-(pseudo) science.
Is there a non-pop-psych book that you would recommend in the same vein as this one?