Re:The annoying habits of highly effective people
by devdas on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:04AM
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That sounds like a fairly large financial privilege to me. If you are working two jobs to just get enough food to survive, and your friends are in a similar situation, you don't have that opportunity or ability to take risks.
Re:The annoying habits of highly effective people
by white-flame on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:22PM
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There are people who simply walk away from it all. None of these issues are truly and specifically "to survive", it's all chasing something.
Re:The annoying habits of highly effective people
by jhowell on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:21AM
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Spoken as someone who denies the safety net beneath their high wire act. For some the risks described and the comforts forgone in the hunt of prosperity are called life. Losing these resources means intense uncertainty of paralyzing outcomes. It's not our job to understand the plight of all around us with compassion, but it does make it easier to justify incongruent rewards they bring.
Re:The annoying habits of highly effective people
by taurath on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:06AM
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> You'd be surprised how much that frees you from the immediate "harm" you describe, but you also have nothing to fall back on..
All the things you described doing are the fallback options - you have to have a family and friends, things to sell, credit to burn. Even then, family or friends have less patience to carry you when you’re taking a moonshot unless they also have a lot they can fall back on.
Re:The annoying habits of highly effective people
by white-flame on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:43PM
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Specifically, I meant there's nothing to fall back on at the end if the gamble didn't pay off. Your family/friends are sick of you, you have nothing left to sell, any credit is trashed, and your venture didn't pan out.
Where does the "harm" you talk about come from? Usually it's because there are other responsibilities you're engaged with. If you literally give everything else up to focus on one thing, these barbs aren't in your life. I'm talking forgoing rent to crash with family/friends, eating ramen, selling/getting rid of your things, live on credit cards, etc, and have a 24/7 focus that keeps you going.
You'd be surprised how much that frees you from the immediate "harm" you describe, but you also have nothing to fall back on, because you pretty much have nothing else anymore than your pursuit, and can be amassing enormous debt (financial and otherwise). It's a huge amortized, pushed-forward harm in the hopes that the gamble pays off. For many, it doesn't.