Another great way to increase your surface area for luck is being born in a first world country with access to a computer. I hear that has a good success rate!
That's a defeatist attitude, though. There is always somebody with worse chances than you. Would you prefer being born in a third-world country with a high IQ or in a first-world country with a cognitive deficit? In a third-world country with loving and encouraging parents or in a first-world country with parents whipping you three times a week?
Your starting point is not gonna change. Your endpoint can.
As a person who was born in a third-world country, it's amazing (and a bit lucky for me) how many first-world folks can manage to squander this opportunity!
The irony to me is I am the opposite of the kid that got a computer in the 80s and learn to program on my own.
My parents were able to afford a $5k inflation adjusted Appl 2E and I never used it. I played a few games a few times but it mostly collected dust.
When we got the internet in the 90s, I mostly looked up what I could get high from and porn.
Then I spent a good decade drinking too much beer.
I blew every chance I had when I was young and have still done pretty well simply from being born at the right place at the right time.
I wasn't born with a lottery ticket, I was born playing a game of craps with weighted dice in my favor and was allowed to roll until I started winning.
We live in a society though of insecure douchebags with no self awareness to really gain perspective on how they won the powerball lottery of existence in terms of their time and place of birth. Make up fictional narratives on their own personal genius and "how you can too!".
borroka|7 months ago
Your starting point is not gonna change. Your endpoint can.
yen223|7 months ago
audinobs|7 months ago
My parents were able to afford a $5k inflation adjusted Appl 2E and I never used it. I played a few games a few times but it mostly collected dust.
When we got the internet in the 90s, I mostly looked up what I could get high from and porn.
Then I spent a good decade drinking too much beer.
I blew every chance I had when I was young and have still done pretty well simply from being born at the right place at the right time.
I wasn't born with a lottery ticket, I was born playing a game of craps with weighted dice in my favor and was allowed to roll until I started winning.
We live in a society though of insecure douchebags with no self awareness to really gain perspective on how they won the powerball lottery of existence in terms of their time and place of birth. Make up fictional narratives on their own personal genius and "how you can too!".
kulahan|7 months ago
gcheong|7 months ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/warren-buffett-says-the-key-...
ipaddr|7 months ago