Sandra Newman @sannewman
THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
being a straight up psychopath seems to help a bit
They’re just prioritising their health when they can easily sleep 8 and a half hours after ruining countless lives and justifying it as “doing business”
You still need some base cash though. So that filters out a lot of psychopaths.
Yep. They start from a position that most of us can't even dream of achieving.
Most of us don't even realize what being truly wealthy is like. I come from an affluent family. I never had to worry about necessities, had a decent education at the high school level to secure scholarships at good universities. But there are people who don't need to care about anything at all. They can just get any degree with minimal work, inherit the family business, and have someone else run it for them. On the other hand, I've known people who had to drop college or had to go worse colleges since they couldn't afford the fees (I'm not from US, college is not even that expensive here, still some can't afford it). The wealth inequality makes me feel nauseous.
Another issue is that even with all the advantages listed here, it can still be "hard" to work towards success. You still have to work every day for a time and work long hours if you want to be truly successful (I'm excluding the kids of like multi-millionaires and up). It can feel hard even if you have all the luxuries in the world, and in a way it still is.
The problem is these people can't ever imagine what it's like for someone so much poorer than them, and in their eyes, they struggled pretty hard to get to where they are. It's impossible to imagine what life is like without parents helping financially and without education being paid for.
Nepotism works, just wish I could have gotten into this industry on my own merits. But alas.
Low inheritance taxes exacerbate nepotism
Actually I find a lack of regulation (and nepotism) begets nepotism.
It's a nice club, and we ain't in it.
And having just one doesn't help. I went to a private elementary school (I can tell so many stories about how awful that was) and I'm still a loser.
The worst thing in the world is being the only non-wealthy person in a fancy private school. I spent a year in one (grant, partly) and kept getting in trouble for hurting some bully's fist when he punched me.
When the guy who treats people like shit has his last name in brass on the Computer Lab wall, he gets away with everything.
We were not wealthy, but not poor. Basically, they could afford the school but not afford a lot of expensive clothes. And since the school didn't have uniforms, I never wore the designer clothes other kids wore, which really sucked when they bullied me for it.
Wow I can't imagine. I always thought that was made up, but I went to a poor person school, so everyone dressed like me more or less.
"Always get ut at 3 AM, and get shit done"
then wipe, wash hands, and go back to bed
I did that yesterday, why am I not successful yet
Or in Elon's case, "always get up at 3 am, tweet [xeet?] until I go back to sleep."
“Xcreet”
These things are what push people over the top when "working hard" is something most people already do. Successful people with contribution bias discount the luck factor that is truly responsible for putting them where they are. I would argue that anyone who even halfway puts an effort in, but with a substantial starting position, is more likely to succeed than to fail.
It's like Michelle Obama said, "I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of, I have worked at nonprofits, I have been at foundations, I have worked in corporations, served on corporate boards, I have been at G-summits, I have sat in at the U.N.: They are not that smart."
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