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> My concerns are because people are failure-averse, we hate negativity. A YouTuber/Instragammer can simply not read the comments, or selectively filter the com

> My concerns are because people are failure-averse, we hate negativity. A YouTuber/Instragammer can simply not read the comments, or selectively filter the comments. Are they getting the same "grit" experience as the more traditional work environments I mentioned above? 1) Should we aspire to that grit/negativity continuing as part of everyone's working lives? I'm not so sure... 2) Sure - and as a SaaS owner I can ignore customer complaints/support requests. But I'll end up out of business pretty quickly. Same goes for influencers and their audience. The difference is (perhaps) that a bit of negative press isn't necessarily bad for business in the influencer world...

tsumnia 8y ago
> Should we aspire to that grit/negativity continuing as part of everyone's working lives? I'm not so sure... I'll say yes, mostly due to the fact we cannot control life. If a family member is injured or killed, you cannot ignore it. Let's change the "grit"-building away from interacting with people to other "sucky" grit-building attributes; for example, physical fitness. Starting off sucks and hurts, but you have to "push through" to develop the ritual and motivation to improve. To do Couch to 5K, you have to deal with the upfront costs of huffing, wheezing, AND allocating time in your schedule to huff and wheeze. With a job like car washing or landscaping, you can quit, but you're out of work. The only thing you can do is lay a wet bandanna on your head and get back to work. Another analogy is Computer Science, and more generally STEM. I think one of the primary reasons from the high attrition rates isn't because people "weren't born that way". The constant failure is commonplace; at least when compiling your first programs in intro to CS. I think people choose to pursue other careers because you have to "deal with" compiler errors. My concern is that you don't learn this by being a billboard. Maybe Youtubing, since there's video editing, but again why I'm not sure. This gets back to my "failure-aversion" - if people are not building enough "grit", or perseverance if you don't like the term grit, then they will not be able to do anything BEYOND be a walking advertisement.

tsumnia 8y ago

> Should we aspire to that grit/negativity continuing as part of everyone's working lives? I'm not so sure... I'll say yes, mostly due to the fact we cannot control life. If a family member is injured or killed, you cannot ignore it. Let's change the "grit"-building away from interacting with people to other "sucky" grit-building attributes; for example, physical fitness. Starting off sucks and hurts, but you have to "push through" to develop the ritual and motivation to improve. To do Couch to 5K, you have to deal with the upfront costs of huffing, wheezing, AND allocating time in your schedule to huff and wheeze. With a job like car washing or landscaping, you can quit, but you're out of work. The only thing you can do is lay a wet bandanna on your head and get back to work. Another analogy is Computer Science, and more generally STEM. I think one of the primary reasons from the high attrition rates isn't because people "weren't born that way". The constant failure is commonplace; at least when compiling your first programs in intro to CS. I think people choose to pursue other careers because you have to "deal with" compiler errors. My concern is that you don't learn this by being a billboard. Maybe Youtubing, since there's video editing, but again why I'm not sure. This gets back to my "failure-aversion" - if people are not building enough "grit", or perseverance if you don't like the term grit, then they will not be able to do anything BEYOND be a walking advertisement.