RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong
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There are about a dozen people who want to be the next PotUS badly enough to put themselves forward as serious candidates. Exactly one of them will be. At most a few more ever will be. Most startups fail. How many of the refugees trying to enter Europe will succeed? Are the ones who fail just not trying hard enough?
The quote is inspirational, but the idea it is intended to evoke is not well expressed by the actual words. I mean, yay growth mindset and use the try harder, Luke, and ikigai, and tsuyoku naritai, but.