True and hate me for saying this. But also there is hard fucking work involved. But there’s a big parachute but for a lot of successful people I met in life they had high demands at young ages.
In my university the top kids in the class were all rich kids with like 8 different things going on. They always had obligations like practices for national fencing teams or tennis or piano. They volunteered. They worked at their family business. They had a side gig hustling to get their feet wet in their own business.
Sure they had a lot of free time and safety but the successful ones also had like a manic drive to fill their time with things most don’t.
I just want to point it out because before uni I thought it was just about being rich and having free time. Now I get that its those things and much more and our cultural bias could be hurting our own understanding of how we can succeed. Feels good to shit on the rich as spoiled trust funders. But also we are missing the real point I think by leaning into stereotypes
That is all fine and true, but I’ve known people who are struggling like hell to just stay afloat. I would say there may be a correlation between working hard and success, but I don’t think it’s the cause.
On the other side, it also brings a negative view to people who aren’t successful as being lazy, when they could be working just as hard or harder.
It would be great if the only thing between someone and a better future was more effort, truly rewarding based on merit, but I just don’t think that is the case.
True and hate me for saying this. But also there is hard fucking work involved. But there’s a big parachute but for a lot of successful people I met in life they had high demands at young ages.
In my university the top kids in the class were all rich kids with like 8 different things going on. They always had obligations like practices for national fencing teams or tennis or piano. They volunteered. They worked at their family business. They had a side gig hustling to get their feet wet in their own business.
Sure they had a lot of free time and safety but the successful ones also had like a manic drive to fill their time with things most don’t.
I just want to point it out because before uni I thought it was just about being rich and having free time. Now I get that its those things and much more and our cultural bias could be hurting our own understanding of how we can succeed. Feels good to shit on the rich as spoiled trust funders. But also we are missing the real point I think by leaning into stereotypes
That is all fine and true, but I’ve known people who are struggling like hell to just stay afloat. I would say there may be a correlation between working hard and success, but I don’t think it’s the cause.
On the other side, it also brings a negative view to people who aren’t successful as being lazy, when they could be working just as hard or harder.
It would be great if the only thing between someone and a better future was more effort, truly rewarding based on merit, but I just don’t think that is the case.