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If he really was that lazy and that successful, that just proves to me that laziness is indeed a virtue :)
by tiborsaas 3y ago
If he really was that lazy and that successful, that just proves to me that laziness is indeed a virtue :)
- krapp 3y agoLaziness is only a virtue when you have enough genius for it to be effortless. But genius is the hare that will always be beaten by the persistent tortoise if it stands still long enough.
- tiborsaas 3y agoLuckily it's not a competition, everyone can win one way or another. But just being lazy is not enough for sure.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>But genius is the hare that will always be beaten by the persistent tortoise if it stands still long enough. Definitely not always. That's survivorship bias. There's no guarantee that if you're a hard working tortoise you'll ever beat a hare. Like there's no guarantee that if I'll practice my soccer moves 24/7 for 10 years I'll ever be able to beat Ronaldo.
- krapp 3y ago> Like there's no guarantee that if I'll practice my soccer moves 24/7 for 10 years I'll ever be able to beat Ronaldo. Because Ronaldo keeps practicing and improving, as any professional athlete would. But the hare is the person who never bothers to train or improve beyond their natural talents, who thinks they've already won the race, so there's no point in even running. The "smart kid" who coasts through school and never leaves their comfort zone but winds up in a dead end job with only wasted potential and unfulfilled dreams, while the people who actually applied themselves blew past them in college and got better jobs and achieved their goals.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>But the hare is the person who never bothers to train or improve beyond their natural talents That wasn't may point. My point was that if everyone applied themselves, not everyone would even reach Ronaldo's level. Otherwise every hardworking person in Namibia or Zimbabwe would be Elon Musk wealthy by now. But they aren't. Why is that? is it because they didn't apply themselves as hard as Musk? Or is it because opportunities in life are limited, no matter how hard you work, and getting them is a lottery of birth and of chance.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoTime, chance and place
- coderedart 3y agoConclusions from a single data point are the most correct
- tiborsaas 3y agoI have 2 actually, I'm lazy as well.