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I have always believed that to be successful intellectually, you should be driven by curiosity rather than fear.
by tigerthink 18y ago
I have always believed that to be successful intellectually, you should be driven by curiosity rather than fear.
- jerf 18y agoBased on what I've seen in real life in the American version of this, you can be pretty "intellectually successfully" just from being pushed, although they lack the "spark"; I can't imagine this producing an entrepreneur (and I'm not just saying that because this is HN; that really is the opposite of where they end up). The problem is that every other kind of success tends to be elusive, up to and including "succeeding in not committing suicide". (Fortunately, I don't quite know anyone who made it that far, but I know some people who came close.)
- azharcs 18y agoI really liked your quote, I have just quoted you in my new blog post about the same topic. http://geeyk.com/what-is-wrong-with-chinese-and-indian-parents/ http://geeyk.com/what-is-wrong-with-chinese-and-indian-paren... ps: I didn't link here to drive traffic to my blog post, The comment i have written on here is the same i have posted there. :)
- tigerthink 18y agoThanks! For posterity's sake I should probably clarify that I haven't always believed it. It's just something I started saying to myself a year or so ago.