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“Confidence is the key to success” claim wealthy, attractive people (www.thebeaverton.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I think what also falls on deaf ears is that even if those people don’t “make their own success” that they’d like to loudly proclaim, chances are that there are near-guaranteed positions that they can fall back into or family and friends they can go live with while they plot for their next endeavour.

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