Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of?

Re:Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of? by steven2012 on Saturday April 18, 2015 @11:34AM (#9399776)

My parents came from a third world country extremely poor. They struggled to ensure that my siblings and I received a good education along with good values. My own family is now in the top 1% of earners in the US, so our family tree went from poor to well-off in one generation.

When my parents come to visit us, I know how proud they are and I'm proud that I didn't squander the opportunity that they worked so hard to give us.

I'm not sure what my kids will do but I intend to instill the same values of education, working harder than anyone else, and having good values into them.

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Re:Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of? by nicksellen on Saturday April 18, 2015 @12:41PM (#9400035)

Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :)

I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have any insight into what the differences are?

Innate abilities? specific values? good luck? - I can imagine the general differences, but the specifics are really interesting to me.

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Re:Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of? by steven2012 on Sunday April 19, 2015 @12:23AM (#9402026)

Emphasis on education, but a lot of very hard work. Intelligence will get you some of the way, but hard work is everything.

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Re:Ask HN: What accomplishment are you most proud of? by imaginenore on Saturday April 18, 2015 @01:00PM (#9400102)

Almost the same here. Bottom 3% -> top 3%.

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