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The seven secrets of highly successful people (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sandra Newman @sannewman

THE SEVEN SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

Private school
Legacy lvy admission
Nepotism hire
Seed capital from family
Club memberships
Personal assistant, nanny, ghost writer answer
Journalists who ask, "What's your secret?" and uncritically publish the

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

always wondered why Snow-white needed 7 dwarves

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You also forgot to steal the accomplishments of others

[+] [email protected] -27 points 1 year ago (36 children)

I came from dirt poor and I'm wealthy now. In my opinion the key to success comes down to a few things.

Education
Need
Luck

Education: My mother made $15k per year and my private school tuition was $375/month. This also provided me with friends that were not dirt poor (this also helps a lot). My wife received the best education the Soviet Union had to offer, which is better than anything we could even imagine stateside.

Need: Hunger is s great motivator. It also gives you this every present fear that if you take your foot off the gas, you'll be hungry again.

Luck: This one is obvious. Plenty of people are hungry and plenty of people have good educations and still struggle.

I think my wife and I did well because we teamed up early. Had we tried solo I think we would have failed.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People don't want to hear that. They want to keep believing that they're poor not because they made a suboptimal choice but because the system conspired against them. My advice is pretend rich people aren't real and make your life and the people's around you the best you can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How can we ignore that super-wealthy people exist when there’s a causal link between their situation and ours? They’re rich and most people are poor, and they are rich because others are poor. Wealth doesn’t generate itself, and no human can generate a billion dollars in value alone, even by working 170-hour weeks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People getting richer doesn't automatically make someone else poorer. The total amount of resources the human species has access to is constantly growing as our productive power increases. In fact, most of the time the total productive power increase is directly linked to someone getting richer.

Wealth doesn’t generate itself, and no human can generate a billion dollars in value alone, even by working 170-hour weeks.

Sure they can. J.K. Rowling is a billionaire. How many people did she exploit by writing 7 books? The people who worked on the trains or in the coffee shops she hung around and bought coffee from? The idea that people only collect wealth by depriving someone else of it is a pre-modern understanding. Same with the idea that value is related to hours worked.

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[+] [email protected] -29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why don't we send more people to private school then? Start with the easy one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because it will stop being "private", which in this case is a blanket term for elite schools. If everyone goes to elite schools, by definition it's not elite anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I went to a private elementary school. Not only did it not help me in the adult world, it didn't even help me in middle school and high school other than put me in GT classes I shouldn't have been put in, make me totally unprepared for class sizes (there were 11 kids in my sixth grade class), etc. Oh, and they had a no homework policy which meant I could never get used to doing homework and by high school just stopped doing it.

On top of all that, I had the same teacher for all six years who both mentally and, once, sexually abused me and encouraged other kids to bully me.

Not one of those things would have happened if I had just gone to a normal public school. Those, for all their faults, prepare kids to be adults.

But nepo babies never have to be adults.

So maybe we shouldn't send more kids to private schools. We need adults.

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