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Consequently, "You should quit your lofty goals and revert to those more practical in nature." should've been said to a lot of people who didn't accomplish anyt
by choudharism 9y ago
Consequently, "You should quit your lofty goals and revert to those more practical in nature." should've been said to a lot of people who didn't accomplish anything.
That's how selection bias works.
I think the nature of this debate is such that we'll always settle on the idea that "one ideology fits all" has never worked and will never work.
A few people doing great is important for the world, and so is a lot of people doing okay-to-good. Which one is more important can be your personal POV, but it's easy to see that neither is worth discarding.
- AznHisoka 9y agoExactly. Which is why I really can't stand life advice from very successful people.
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- owebmaster 9y agoAdvices from very unsuccesful people don't help either.
- Apocryphon 9y agoMaybe all advice in general is not very useful?
- NTDF9 9y agoAdvice from people about their own failures and people who acknowledge their luck usually works.
- bisRepetita 9y agoExamples, data points are useful, advice a lot less in my mind. "This is my situation and what I've done about it, what worked and did not work for me." Then it is up to the listener to learn something from it, possibly transpose, or not.