rwallace comments on Incremental Progress and the Valley - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 April 2009 04:42PM

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Comment author: AlexU 04 April 2009 08:54:08PM *  12 points [-]

Still, if everyone who does succeed has an irrational belief in their own success, then it's not wrong to conclude that such a belief is probably a prerequisite (though certainly not a "guarantee") for success.

Comment author: rwallace 05 April 2009 08:41:21AM 3 points [-]

I think the best approach is a slightly more sophisticated one: commit to the belief that there is a way to succeed and you will find it - but not necessarily that you have already found it.