taryneast comments on Adversity to Success - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Elo 15 June 2016 10:24PM

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Comment author: taryneast 15 June 2016 11:50:36PM 1 point [-]

Are you asking why adversity-to-success stories are so prevalent? in which case it's also partly because we (the ordinary people) want to hear them... because they are stories of hope, especially stories of what we hope for ourselves. Reading about a great success triggers our own feeling of succeeding, in small part.