I'm a short guy too (5'8" as well). Its mostly been a disadvantage in my life. From a strategic point of view, its important to understand what our strengths a

I'm a short guy too (5'8" as well). Its mostly been a disadvantage in my life. From a strategic point of view, its important to understand what our strengths and weaknesses are. I refer to this as "playing the cards you're dealt." However, I think very often people focus on the ways that people are prejudiced against them (and their other disadvantages) in unhealthy ways: becoming demoralized, becoming angry, and using prejudice as an excuse to fail. To be successful, you just gotta knuckle down and do it. Its good to strategically recognize and respond to your individual disadvantages, but emotionally worrying about them is not good. Height, weight and race are feasible things to measure in a study, and thus find statistical variations. But there are a ton of factors that affect success, here are a few that I think make a big difference but are either harder to measure or not acknowledged as much: * Feelings of ambition * Ideas that you were exposed to when you were growing up * If your parents are savvy people * Your own feelings of entitlement * Emotional predisposition * Who your parents (and other family/friends) know * Social intelligence * Desire to be around people