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It's a self fulfilling prophecy. That Harvard grad looking for a job at BigPapa Stearns might get the job because he happens to know the secret handshake or p
by alaskamiller 19y ago
It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
That Harvard grad looking for a job at BigPapa Stearns might get the job because he happens to know the secret handshake or presents himself as trustworthy but in reality, at worse, he might be an idiot, and, at best, he's simply good enough to do the job. But BigPapa Stearns only hires Harvard grads because no one was ever fired for hiring Harvard grads.
In the end, if you don't make your life an empty pursuit for the almighty dollar that consumes 16 hours of your days for a good 3 or 4 years before succumbing to that coke addiction and none of this would matter. A Savile Row bespoke suit doesn't necessarily make you a better man, or a hero.
- caveman82 19y agoSo all Harvard grads in big i-banks work 16 hour days and are coke addicts? Let's put something else in context, one could make the argument that a majority of college grads from any school embark on "a journey of empty pursuits for the almighty dollar...". I hardly think this is symptomatic of going to a top20 school, but how much blind ambition a person has.
- alaskamiller 19y agoHyperbole isn't going to work on you, I see. That's the point that Godin makes.