Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
by edoceo on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:40PM
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""It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."" - J.L. Picard
Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
by WalterBright on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:18PM
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Star Trek is a hollywood fiction.
Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
by Smaug123 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:35AM
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“But she finds it so difficult to verbalize, Charles dear. It helps her if she can quote instead of working out words of her own.”
Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
by imtringued on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:32AM
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All quotes are equally worthless so I don't know why you bring that up.
People quote people because they want to express the same sentiment but they believe someone else did it better. Not because they believe the quote to be an absolute truth.
Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
by WalterBright on Sunday November 29, 2020 @06:04PM
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Picard's "wisdom" does not come from a man experienced in battle and leading men and flying a starship around the galaxy.
It comes from a person who has likely commanded nothing more than a typewriter. The real world does not work like the fantasy saccharin world of Star Trek, and wise sayings from it being applicable to the real world would just be happenstance.
There was no messaging that life was easy, or that you only had to believe, or only had to try hard. You could do all of that, and fail. Then you reflect on the failure and try again, presumably having learned something.