4 ms·
I've distilled the following maxim from my workplace experience. There are two ways to achieve success in this world: * Be exceptionally skilled at something
by ryandvm 7y ago
I've distilled the following maxim from my workplace experience.
There are two ways to achieve success in this world:
* Be exceptionally skilled at something
* Be unscrupulous
Those traits certainly aren't mutually exclusive, but the counterexamples of folks that have achieved success without either of them seem to be few and far between.
[Obviously we're excluding folks that are "gifted" success.]
- chmod775 7y agoThe reason you don't usually see both at the same time is that you don't need to be unscrupulous (which can backfire) if you are exceptionally skilled. Vice versa if you are unscrupulous there's a good chance you can get by without becoming skilled at anything... so you don't.
- perl4ever 7y agoPeople who are the most successful are always "all of the above" where that includes talent, training, flexible ethics, privileged background, luck, and drive. Anyone who lacks the utmost in any of those categories is going to be outdone by another of the billion people on the planet. This isn't something you should have to have empirical evidence for to believe.