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>These are kids who have no ability to measure their own worth in any realistic way—either you are on top of the world, or you are worthless. And that kind of a
by rl3 11y ago
>These are kids who have no ability to measure their own worth in any realistic way—either you are on top of the world, or you are worthless. And that kind of all-or-nothing mentality really pervades the whole system.
Replace kids with founders and it's still just as true. Coincidentally, many Ivy League grads end up starting startups.
- gok2 11y agoCompletely agree. ivy league grad, started startup, failed ofc and felt worthless for a while. But it passed away after I got out of the building and talked to other founders, they are in a worse situation :P
- enraged_camel 11y agoMy feelings are mixed: I find it both funny and sad that what made you feel better was seeing that others are worse off. Perhaps a reflection of our culture in general?
- venomsnake 11y agoIn engineering we call that calibration. From what I understood he did not felt schadenfreude.
- randycupertino 11y agoThey've done studies about this, basically your happiness is calibrated against whether or not you are better or worse off status wise compared to your immediate peer group.
- hammock 11y agoApplies to kids from the hood as well
- thex10 11y agoEither you've made it out the hood or you haven't.