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Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by username90 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:19PM (#25240187)
> Everyone who succeeds in business believes that they can do it.

No, not at all. For example Larry Page offered to sell Google for 1 million dollars, he didn't believe he would succeed. Yet he went on to create one of the most valuable companies on earth. Being modest does not prevent you from succeeding.

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Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by alisonkisk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:07PM (#25246773)
Because he wanted to finish his PhD. At that time Google was just a cute research project. The engineering behemoth that became Google came after, and Page might have done that anyway after graduation.
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