How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)

Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by grawprog on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:28PM (#25241842)

>It's entirely possible that in your life, you could have succeeded and still ended up becoming poor

What does being poor have to do with it?

You can succeed at lots of things, but if you don't try to get rich(assuming you don't start that way) you're probably not going to. But if you've never tried, then how can you fail at it?

Getting rich is a focus in and of itself. There's lots of people successful at many things, they might not get rich off it, but unless that's something they really wanted, they probably won't feel much a of a sense of failure because they're not.

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Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by v64 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:31PM (#25241860)

> What does being poor have to do with it?

I was addressing OP's concern about his own life: "In some cases I really would become poor or have no future if I didn't succeed"

I agree with you that part of OP's problem is framing success together with things like being rich and having a future.

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