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> Haters are generally losers in a very specific sense: although they are occasionally talented, they have never achieved much. So if people become haters beca
by cabalamat 7y ago
> Haters are generally losers in a very specific sense: although they are occasionally talented, they have never achieved much.
So if people become haters because they never achieved much, why do people become fanboys?
- cperciva 7y agoJudging from the people who have self-identified to me as fanboys: They often aspire to follow an example. So the difference between the groups may be less how much they have achieved and how much they hope to achieve -- a question of optimism as much as anything else.
- calineczka 7y agoMy personal theory: same reason but scoped to a limited domain. You can be a generally happy and successful person but a fanboy of an athlete because you've never achieved much in sports. You want someone to succeed because it resonates with some unrealized potential in yourself.
- cabalamat 7y agoThat makes sense. To the extent I've ever been a fanboy, it's because I wanted to emulate that person in some way.
- thrwaway69 7y agoBeing either seems like a lose-lose situation to me. If you are not being critical in your evaluation of someone you may gain from, then that's wasting time. I have found a reasonable way to combat that by always considering how much I would have been paid on average if I tried to work the time I spent. Currently the amount is hypothetical but I think that may change when I get stable income in future. I notice that aspect of thinking matures some people.
- he0001 7y agoDoesn’t becoming a fanboy in certain ways requires you to be a hater too? Case in point Windows vs Linux?