You let what amounts to basically childish pedantry make that big of a deal in your personal life? OK, I guess ... I don't think a view that basically says "st

You let what amounts to basically childish pedantry make that big of a deal in your personal life? OK, I guess ... I don't think a view that basically says "stop making excuses about your genetics and current station in life and work hard to achieve your goals" is naive optimism. First of all this kind of thing is not that easy to predict, how do you really know you can't do certain things, it's easy to retrodict. By all rights, the vast majority of successful people should have just given up and come to reality without even trying. Sure, if we all send our intellects back to fourth grade and make really literal interpretations like "you mean I can fly?" then it gets ridiculous, but then we would be ridiculous. :)