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> I don't know the lesson to be learned here That it's the people who say the "right" things that win at life, not the people who study hard and try to make an
by commandlinefan 3y ago
> I don't know the lesson to be learned here
That it's the people who say the "right" things that win at life, not the people who study hard and try to make an actual difference. Maya Angelou said it best - she was trying to be inspirational, but it's actually depressing as hell for anybody who thought hard work would get them ahead: "People will forget what you said, they'll forget what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel".
- WalterBright 3y ago> anybody who thought hard work would get them ahead That's another manifestation of the Labor Theory of Value, where what something is worth is proportional to the amount of labor that went into it. This is false. Value is only tangentially related to the labor input. Just because you work hard creating a song doesn't mean people will like the song and pay $$ for it. Working smart is what matters. By that I mean working at creating things people want.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThis has been my lifelong struggle. People prefer to feel better, and that’s just reality. So how can I fuse good real things with good real feelings.
- StressedDev 3y agoTwo comments: 1) Saying the “right” things does not work in the long run because people want results. Also, if the “right” things are not true, they will notice, and there are usually consequences. 2) I think May Angelou is right that people remember how you make them feel. I also think they remember people’s actions and statements. A good example of this is Google itself. People eventually figured out that the “do no evil” moto was bullshit. They also figured out that when Google said something, you should be skeptical because of Google’s track record of canceling products.
- tsunamifury 3y agoHaha “long run”. So funny.