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What a horrible way of looking at the world. Not everything needs to be a competition. Sure, do what you get paid for or care about intentionally, but framing

by flax 2y ago

What a horrible way of looking at the world. Not everything needs to be a competition. Sure, do what you get paid for or care about intentionally, but framing it as being in the "top x%" is just so off-putting. I don't want to constantly compare myself to others. I'd rather compare myself today to myself yesterday. Or, you know, just do things I enjoy because I enjoy them. As for wanting influence, I can't relate at all. I just want sovereignty over my own life.

jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
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- reillyse 2y ago
  of course it is, it is the premise of the article. The author compares and ranks the people who perform activities.
  - jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
    Just because a rank exist doesn't mean a competition exists. I might rank people on the street by height, but they're not competing with each other. In the context of the article, a rank is a measurement that the observer takes, it's not necessarily a motivator for the behaviour of the people he's observing (although in some cases it might be).
GrifMD 2y ago
My takeaway from that was more "the world isn't that daunting, if you just do something consistently with effort, you're going to do a lot better than most people since most aren't putting much effort into it." You don't have to do that with everything in life, but you can do that with the things you care about. It could be actually practicing chess, it could be following a training plan while running, and it could be rising through the ranks at work. I like cycling, and I know with a consistent routine I improve a lot more than my friends who just cycle on once or twice a week. I'm not trying to be better than them, I just really enjoy being a good cyclist.
- roxolotl 2y ago
  I agree with your takeaway however the comment you’re replying to is reacting to the tone and the presentation and I agree with them. The two points in the article, that 80% is done by 20% and that to get to 20% all you need is relatively little effort, if taken to heart give license to deride those who aren’t in the 20% because clearly if they cared at all they’d just try and be solid at things. Siddhartha[0] recently was on the front page. I’d highly recommend it as a much more humanist take on “the world isn’t that daunting so long as you are intentional with your actions.” [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)

by flax 2y ago

jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago

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reillyse 2y ago
of course it is, it is the premise of the article. The author compares and ranks the people who perform activities.
- jxjnskkzxxhx 2y ago
  Just because a rank exist doesn't mean a competition exists. I might rank people on the street by height, but they're not competing with each other. In the context of the article, a rank is a measurement that the observer takes, it's not necessarily a motivator for the behaviour of the people he's observing (although in some cases it might be).

GrifMD 2y ago

My takeaway from that was more "the world isn't that daunting, if you just do something consistently with effort, you're going to do a lot better than most people since most aren't putting much effort into it." You don't have to do that with everything in life, but you can do that with the things you care about. It could be actually practicing chess, it could be following a training plan while running, and it could be rising through the ranks at work. I like cycling, and I know with a consistent routine I improve a lot more than my friends who just cycle on once or twice a week. I'm not trying to be better than them, I just really enjoy being a good cyclist.

roxolotl 2y ago
I agree with your takeaway however the comment you’re replying to is reacting to the tone and the presentation and I agree with them. The two points in the article, that 80% is done by 20% and that to get to 20% all you need is relatively little effort, if taken to heart give license to deride those who aren’t in the 20% because clearly if they cared at all they’d just try and be solid at things. Siddhartha[0] recently was on the front page. I’d highly recommend it as a much more humanist take on “the world isn’t that daunting so long as you are intentional with your actions.” [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)