I can't say that your summary matches my life - I've been pretty lazy, but having just enough work ethic about certain things and a drive to learn and a crapton

I can't say that your summary matches my life - I've been pretty lazy, but having just enough work ethic about certain things and a drive to learn and a crapton of dumb luck has seen me "successful". I have friends at various points along the financial success/security path, and I only see strong correlation between working hard and success at the very low end. > It means showing up on time for your 9-5 job and working hard at it is the absolute minimal bar for success I've violated your absolute minimum - I'm not saying you can and should slack off all the time, but at the same time slavish devotion to fulfilling a 1950s viewpoint doesn't actually get you that far either. > The simple fact is most humans do not enjoy learning for the sake of learning. Probably and sadly true. I _suspect_ that it's because we (society) do a terrible job of TEACHING learning, so only those with the right parents/friends/genetic happenstance learn it. But that' is an unproven suspicion. It might also be a fundamental truth of the current state of human evolution. ( I have a theory that brain usage is "expensive" calorie-wise, and we've evolved to minimize the actual exercise of our brains. My theory gets a little support when they find that starvation/crisis spurs more energy directed to the brain, but I've not seen anything that has actually studied my theory. On the gripping hand, I've not really tried to check either, because that seems like work. [joke]).