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Scott Adams wrote about this in the WSJ a while back: https://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-adams8217-secret-of-success-failure-1381639163 https://www.wsj.com/arti
by gavman 8y ago
Scott Adams wrote about this in the WSJ a while back: https://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-adams8217-secret-of-success-failure-1381639163 https://www.wsj.com/articles/scott-adams8217-secret-of-succe...
He says we see successful passionate people but have the causality backwards: success does not follow passion, but passion follows success.
- rfg34te4 8y agoSo did this guy do any serious research into how people chose their careers? Did he work as a career counselor? Has he done extensive interviews with people at the top of their field? Oh no, he's apparently qualified to talk about this because he wrote Dilbert.
- listenallyall 8y agoLOL like that is how you gain insight into human happiness. Scott Adams also never was a politician, never interviewed politicians, never administered a poll, never ran a campaign. And yet he accurately predicted the results of the last US presidential election, while nearly all news outlets, professional polls, and political "experts" failed to do so.
- rfg34te4 8y agoLOL The night of the election, I put cat food in two bowls labeled "trump" and "clinton." The cat ate out of the trump bowl first. My cat was never was a politician, never interviewed politicians, never administered a poll, never ran a campaign. And yet he accurately predicted the results of the last US presidential election, while nearly all news outlets, professional polls, and political "experts" failed to do so.
- kadenshep 8y agoOr, it's neither of those things. Scott Adams is just being contrarian, as per usual.