asdf4321 comments on On Doing the Impossible - Less Wrong

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Comment author: asdf4321 06 October 2008 08:09:00PM 0 points [-]

Trying to do the impossible is definitely not for everyone. Natural talent is only the ante to sit down at the table. The chips are the years of your life. If wagering those chips and losing seems like an unbearable possibility to you, then go do something else. Seriously. Because you can lose.

This is an awesome quote that is going into my collection, but could you please restate this for posterity as something like the following, making clear that you mean "impossible" and not impossible:

Trying to do the "impossible" is definitely not for everyone. Natural talent is only the ante to sit down at the table. The chips are the years of your life. If wagering those chips and losing seems like an unbearable possibility to you, then go do something else. Seriously. Because you can lose.