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This is good advice... for _some_ people.For those who might make the mistakes he's alluding to. Other people will have a different character where passion is i
by triplesec 13y ago
This is good advice... for _some_ people.For those who might make the mistakes he's alluding to. Other people will have a different character where passion is indeed what makes them make good decisions and succeed.
So, like all advice, this works for some of the people, some of the time. As he said himself in the text: "Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. "
- larrys 13y agoI liked the article. But the irony is that if he had written the exact same thing prior to achieving success with Dilbert it would mean absolutely nothing to the masses and hardly be taken seriously at all. But yet I'm sure he would admit that Dilbert succeeding was total luck after so many "failures". There are many people who are successful with many good things to say but nobody would ever take anything they say seriously before that lucky event (by that I mean on a wide scale basis I'm not saying that an individual might not listen to another offering some good advice.)
- erichocean 13y agoI think that's fair, though. There are enough people who are old enough alive at any given time to have seen their system through to success or failure that it makes reasonable sense to prefer their experience over people just starting out. As a basic filter, you could do worse.