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>Just work hard and it will be fine. Which if you look was never true. I don't know, but I still think the first strategy beats the hell out of the alternative

by nickpp 5y ago

>Just work hard and it will be fine. Which if you look was never true. I don't know, but I still think the first strategy beats the hell out of the alternative: "don't do anything and wait for life to pamper you" - because it won't. Life is a fight and one's attitude, while not the only factor, will go quite far towards determining the outcome. A can-do attitude, optimistic and oriented towards success will often encourage a person to take the necessary steps and gambles. While a victim mentality, a losing attitude will discourage a person and make it lose the fight before even starting.

lampe3 5y ago
I mean these sound nice in a book or in a blog post but in real life. Attitude to fight everybody and be better then everybody can lead to being alone because nobody wants to be your friend or only as long as you have money or other stuff. Yes some people have victim mentality but again just because someone has a winning attitude does not mean he/she will win. The odds are bigger of course if you do something but again how much? from 0.001 to 0.002? or 0.05? Just doing stuff is most often not a better advise then doing nothing. Its more important to do the thing that brings you near to your goal. Which these days is taking hack after life hack. Which usually only benefits the people selling you stuff. What about the person who has to work 2 jobs? yes they still can learn that 1 hour when they have a break. But in most of the definitions they would be a looser which they are not. Sometimes it is the systems fault. Sometimes it is random luck or misfortune. What has a bigger impact on you being healthy and wealthy then doing hard work? Your parents being healthy and wealthy. If you look at studies this is the biggest impact not working hard.

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>Just work hard and it will be fine. Which if you look was never true. I don't know, but I still think the first strategy beats the hell out of the alternative

by nickpp 5y ago

lampe3 5y ago
I mean these sound nice in a book or in a blog post but in real life. Attitude to fight everybody and be better then everybody can lead to being alone because nobody wants to be your friend or only as long as you have money or other stuff. Yes some people have victim mentality but again just because someone has a winning attitude does not mean he/she will win. The odds are bigger of course if you do something but again how much? from 0.001 to 0.002? or 0.05? Just doing stuff is most often not a better advise then doing nothing. Its more important to do the thing that brings you near to your goal. Which these days is taking hack after life hack. Which usually only benefits the people selling you stuff. What about the person who has to work 2 jobs? yes they still can learn that 1 hour when they have a break. But in most of the definitions they would be a looser which they are not. Sometimes it is the systems fault. Sometimes it is random luck or misfortune. What has a bigger impact on you being healthy and wealthy then doing hard work? Your parents being healthy and wealthy. If you look at studies this is the biggest impact not working hard.