Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by isoskeles on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:23PM
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It's not as if the converse here is, "If a person doesn't succeed, then they did not deserve it." Is that the reason you have a problem with this mindset? I think of most alternatives as being fatalist / victim mentality, where you think you're an object that the universe does things to.
What mindset do you propose people have when they want to achieve something exceptionally difficult?
Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by Cpoll on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:03PM
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"If I can win the lottery, anyone can" indeed. Does that technically fall under survivorship bias? (Which isn't to say that Chan _just_ got lucky, just that it's a combination of luck, skill, upbringing, disposition, opportunity...)
Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by grecy on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:39PM
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You forgot the three most important things, which are 10,000 times more important than the ones you listed.
Hard work, hard work and hard work.
Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by sirmarksalot on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:10PM
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Necessary but not sufficient.
Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by kkarakk on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:16AM
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what about jackie chan's life story screams luck and people handing him things coz he was handsome to you? literally all he did was hard work
Re:The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
by MagnumOpus on Friday January 11, 2019 @06:30AM
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The part that screams luck is that for every hard working Jackie Chan there are ten -- or more likely a hundred -- people just as talented and working just as hard, who didn't become multimillionaire A-list celebrities.
Which is why the parent poster said hard work is necessary but not sufficient.
This is a terrible mindset to have.