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The thing that always interests me in these discussions is: Apparently believing you can achieve through hard work increases your achievement over believing yo
by mstevens 16y ago
The thing that always interests me in these discussions is:
Apparently believing you can achieve through hard work increases your achievement over believing you're born good or bad.
What I'm curious about is how much this is actually true, which never seems to be addressed - articles (eg the linked one) talk about how holding one belief or another affects your success in life, but never about which is a better understanding of reality.
- philk 16y agoGiven believing you can achieve through hard work increases your success it implies that being good or bad is at least partially based on hard work.
- edanm 16y agoI've had plenty of tries at taking a field I know nothing about, then learning enough to be at least mildly good. I've never given anything the kind of commitment I give to computers, but I know that I can learn other things to a degree that I'll be good there. That's not to say you shouldn't concentrate on your strengths; there are just some things you'll have to learn along the way, especially if you want to create a company, and you're going to suck at them, at least at first.