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Re:Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others? by strawcomb on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:54PM (#16189207)
> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no?

What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that can easily be shown to be false. If I try and win Gold at the olympics, but fail (only winning silver), I am in a completely different place from you who never tried. There's a million other counter examples.

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Re:Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others? by rankam on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:04PM (#16189296)
I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who considers winning a silver medal to be failing - but yes, failure is subjective. The original premise was about a person who tries being "better than" someone who doesn't try - my argument is simply that the act of trying doesn't automatically make you better.
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