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Agreed! Everyone should enjoy success, and success is being better than average.
by sliverstorm 11y ago
Agreed! Everyone should enjoy success, and success is being better than average.
- robgibbons 11y agoIf success is being better than average, then not everyone could enjoy it, or else success would just be the average.
- pyre 11y agoI think that @sliverstorm was conveying that idea via sarcasm.
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- throwaway2048 11y ago>99% everyone on earth has more than the statistical mean amount of legs.
- digbyloftus 11y agoStatistical mean would seem like a poor choice in determining average in that case then.
- meric 11y agoI don't think people should build the expectation where they require "success" to be happy - that only precludes them from being happy when they're unable to become "successful", for a variety of reasons outside of their control, for example, a car accident. It matters not whether everyone can enjoy "success", it only matters that everyone feel they have had the opportunity to be "successful" and they had a solid go at it. With this perspective, "success" can be better than average, which is what it is a lot of the times - most lotto players thinks winning the lotto is "success", and winning the lotto is by definition to achieve a financial outcome that is above the average of all financial outcomes that can occur from playing the lotto.