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That is part of the hero narrative that I am also lamenting. If there are 100 possible research directions and only 1 proves successful. The people who travel
by dauertewigkeit 3y ago
That is part of the hero narrative that I am also lamenting.
If there are 100 possible research directions and only 1 proves successful. The people who travel along the other 99 get no recognition, despite expending the same effort and despite their contribution being just as important.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agowhy is their contribution important? Is it your supposition that the only reason the person who went down the successful path did so purely because they watched everyone else fail? That seems highly unfair to the successful person.
- bmitc 3y agoSuccess doesn't always imply the better approach. Also, failure is an important part of science and technology, and success is often driven by insights derived from failures.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoI have a successful career and my neighbors failures are not related to that in any way. you'll need to give a more strict definition of the word better before this can be a useful conversation.
- bmitc 3y agoThat's not relevant. And one could similarly ask for a definition of success. But the ecact interpretation of the definitions would depend upon the context.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoright, their failures aren't relevant. What's trying to be implied here is that the failure of others informed the success of the one and what I'm pointing out is that's not a given.
- smokel 3y agoFor one, the successful ones might have learned from the unsuccessful ones that which does not work. This is especially the case if the unsuccessful ones are brave enough to write down that they failed. The latter does not seem to happen much now that most people celebrate only success.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agomight have, the other poster is heavily implying that's what happened and the successful one was just lucky. It also might be that the successful one had better judgement and that it _wasn't_ luck. My point is that the current political narrative is strongly that people who are successful are lucky and there's nothing logical about that stance.
- lazide 3y agoMost seeds never germinate, and of those that do, most never amount to much. Such is life.
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