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> what are you disagreeing with That saying "success is due to hard work" is the same as saying "you can become <famous successful person> by hard work". The l
by Isamu 10y ago
> what are you disagreeing with
That saying "success is due to hard work" is the same as saying "you can become <famous successful person> by hard work". The latter is not true, and pointing that out is not a refutation of the first.
- Koshkin 10y agoOne famous successful person, Thomas Edison, would have disagreed with you: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Bahamut 10y agoThe point the person was making is that "a implies b" is quite different from "b implies a" - the converse of a statement is a different statement. Not all hard working people are successful, but all successful people are hard working in math is the point.
- Double_Cast 10y agoConversely. Einstein once said that if he had one hour to save the world, he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution. And of course each would think this way, given their backgrounds. Edison was an inventor and a CEO; Einstein a theoretical physicist. Perhaps HN is familiar with the Parable of the Elephant?