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Why would you choose what's natural (inheritance, physical development, parent's DNA) over what's supernatural (your willpower)?

betenoire 6y ago
I get what you are saying philosophically, but I don't think it holds up in reality. I'll take good healthy genes over whatever life lesson you are offering.
- Konohamaru 6y ago
  It only matters if your happiness is in this-life-only. If you don't then it's just another part of staying in a bad inn.
  - betenoire 6y ago
    You seem to have a clear view of what will make you happy, and I genuinely commend you for that. My initial question was "To Whom (does it matter)?" and you seem to have answered it with "To me and my beliefs about who I am". Fair enough. But I wonder, - Do you want a brilliantly gifted surgeon or one who gets by on grit to operate on your loved one? - Do you want to listen to the effortless musician who seems to have some gift from god, or one that practices 6 hours a day even though they know they kinda suck?
    - Konohamaru 6y ago
      Kind of a theoretical question since you cannot observe grit. Only the surgeon can know if he has grit based on his own self-reflection. > or one that practices 6 hours a day even though they know they kinda suck? Again, we know that practice does not make perfect, but rather perfect practice makes perfect. Just because he practiced for six hours a day doesn't mean he practiced well.
      - betenoire 6y ago
        this is all rhetorical, especially when you brought in the afterlife. grit == effort, not results, and not even effective effort, since that would take an inheritance to understand what is and what isn't effective. you dodged the question
        Konohamaru 6y ago
        Reframe it! Instead of thinking results matter, reframe your life as the following: 1. Pretend that only effort exists 2. Assume beforehand that all your results are equal to <insert first-rate role model>'s results in <insert your desired field> 3. Only exit this make-believe world by looking at your actual results in order to measure the quality of your effort

betenoire 6y ago

I get what you are saying philosophically, but I don't think it holds up in reality. I'll take good healthy genes over whatever life lesson you are offering.

Konohamaru 6y ago
It only matters if your happiness is in this-life-only. If you don't then it's just another part of staying in a bad inn.
- betenoire 6y ago
  You seem to have a clear view of what will make you happy, and I genuinely commend you for that. My initial question was "To Whom (does it matter)?" and you seem to have answered it with "To me and my beliefs about who I am". Fair enough. But I wonder, - Do you want a brilliantly gifted surgeon or one who gets by on grit to operate on your loved one? - Do you want to listen to the effortless musician who seems to have some gift from god, or one that practices 6 hours a day even though they know they kinda suck?
  - Konohamaru 6y ago
    Kind of a theoretical question since you cannot observe grit. Only the surgeon can know if he has grit based on his own self-reflection. > or one that practices 6 hours a day even though they know they kinda suck? Again, we know that practice does not make perfect, but rather perfect practice makes perfect. Just because he practiced for six hours a day doesn't mean he practiced well.
    - betenoire 6y ago
      this is all rhetorical, especially when you brought in the afterlife. grit == effort, not results, and not even effective effort, since that would take an inheritance to understand what is and what isn't effective. you dodged the question
      - Konohamaru 6y ago
        Reframe it! Instead of thinking results matter, reframe your life as the following: 1. Pretend that only effort exists 2. Assume beforehand that all your results are equal to <insert first-rate role model>'s results in <insert your desired field> 3. Only exit this make-believe world by looking at your actual results in order to measure the quality of your effort