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Especially this first quote: "People aren’t deliberate enough about choosing what to work on." Hold up. What is this based on? Is it based on a feeling of the
by polishdude20 4y ago
Especially this first quote:
"People aren’t deliberate enough about choosing what to work on."
Hold up. What is this based on? Is it based on a feeling of the author's inflated sense of worth compared to others?
Or is this really some objective and measurable metric?
Is it possible the author doesn't actually know or has taken the effort to deliberate on this statement themselves? Playing devil's advocate with your own ideas is probably the greatest service you can do for yourself but it seems that's not practised here.
I can come up with many examples of how people ARE very deliberate in what they work on. Like you said, raising a family, enjoying time outside of work, just straight up trying to survive. These all seem pretty deliberate.
- lelandfe 4y ago> Is it possible the author doesn't actually know It’s a very HN mindset to reject articles not backed up by objective facts. This is an inherently subjective post, pointing out the lack of hard data shouldn’t be an indictment of the author’s thesis.
- altdataseller 4y agoHe is projecting himself. Everything he is saying is a reflection of himself
- wnolens 4y agoPrecisely. He likely had a revelation about himself, and writes about it with the language, "people are mostly xyz." What a joke.
- ryandvm 4y agoOof. Been there, done that. In my opinion, a major facet of maturity is figuring out that all the negative shit you think about other people is often just the things you don't like about yourself projected onto other people.
- cecilpl2 4y agoEveryone generalizes from a sample size of one. Well, at least I do.
- diob 4y agoIt's also a Maslow's hierarchy of needs sort of thing. I'm about 33 and finally I feel secure enough to think about things beyond survival.
- highwaylights 4y agoThis right here. Depending on how someone’s life goes and the circumstances they were born into they may either start at this point or never get there at all. The naïveté to different people’s situations is really prevalent here sometimes.
- mgh2 4y agoCompletely agree, Blind has the same mentality https://www.teamblind.com/post/UyGsEdyC?cid=24327137 https://www.teamblind.com/post/UyGsEdyC?cid=24327137
- agumonkey 4y agoAuthor might be a bit off in the reason but there's a lot of people not working where they'd like because the job market is weird and at one point you need money.