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A comment on Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment?.

Re:Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment? by Arete3141 on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:43PM (#15573146)
I wish I had known when I was younger that a lot of the people who shoot down ideas, minimize your creativity, and say "that's impossible" aren't smarter than you. They're just more insecure.

It's easier to say no to everything and look like a genius, then to say "I wonder...", and try, and fail, and try some more -- and perhaps (who knows?) actually be a genius. With all of the concomitant messiness and failures and actual real life kept in the mix.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your “I wish I did it sooner” moment? by zootam on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:51PM (#15573174)
>Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

― Steve Jobs

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