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Another work-more-and-you'll-be-successful suggestions. Along with Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers and countless blog posts. How thick are we here at Hacker News?

• wyday 17y ago
  ... reinvent the wheel with this suggestion It's just more anecdotal evidence of just how long it takes to be truly good at what you do. It's not "reinventing the wheel" (you're not using the expression correctly, by the way). Ira also presented it in an interesting way. How often do you get a successful person willingly showing their failures?
  • metra 17y ago
    How much interesting anecdotal evidence will it take for you to get it? Hard work brings success. As to how often I get a successful person to willingly showing their failures? Do a search on Amazon for success and look at all the books there. Not all successful people have made a video that's been uploaded to Youtube. But many have written a book about it. Maybe I used the expression incorrectly. To me, saying "work more and you'll be successful" a hundred different ways seemed like reinventing the wheel. But you're right, it's off. I should have just said how much time do we have to waste with this suggestion. Go work instead of reading about how much working will help you.
    • zaidf 17y ago
      See someone might say the same thing to your "go work instead" point. Haven't we heard that before too? Repetition works because we are not all on the same page. We all have our aha moments at different times.
    • nvoorhies 17y ago
      If someone's here reading hacker news and clicking on stories about achieving goals, chances are they are precisely the people who need to be told that more and harder work is much more important than tricks and systems.
• tpyo 17y ago
  This is the wonderful thing about Hacker News: it's always reminding you to work when you aren't.