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The likelihood of these chance serendipity things happening greatly increases when you're from or are in an environment that's well nourished and socially suppo
by clicks 14y ago
The likelihood of these chance serendipity things happening greatly increases when you're from or are in an environment that's well nourished and socially supportive.
There are probably a few graduates of Berklee that didn't end up where there were proud to end up being -- the amount of graduates of third-tier music schools that end up nowhere is considerably larger.
- rwallace 14y agoWhile such things do play a part, I think you greatly underestimate the number of graduates from places like Berklee who don't end up where they want to be.
- quesera 14y agoThat's absolutely true, but the pizza doesn't represent success, it represents taking initiative and knowing when to step up to an opportunity. The folks I know who went to Berklee didn't want an industry job, they wanted to be musicians. About half of them are working in the field, others went on to do other things. No one is "nowhere", and they're all happy, modulo normal first world surface noise. Anyway, don't forget: we're all privileged in some set of ways. I agree that Derek was in the right place at the right time, but so were a lot of other people. I think everyone is, sometimes, but we don't always recognize it and act on it. I think that was his message.