[HN Gopher] Attitude Determines Your Success
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Attitude Determines Your Success
Author : nazka
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-08-15 16:25 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| pdar4123 wrote:
| Good thing I grew up in zip code with super positive vibes
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Underrated comment.
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| People in third world countries just don't have good attitudes
| apparently?
| d_silin wrote:
| They do, but it is hard to make it on good attitude alone.
| Afganistan is a country of 30 million people but 0 VCs.
| TrackerFF wrote:
| But what influences your attitude?
|
| One thing I noticed when I studied with predominantly upper
| middle class people (business school) was that they all had what
| I like to call a competitive "winner" mentality.
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| Most went into new situations determined to win/succeed, and when
| I questioned some of my peers on this, I was told that most of
| them had received positive feedback (albeit being pushed) since
| they were kids, in most aspects of life. School, sports, social
| life, etc.
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| I guess that if you've had cheerleaders around you since you were
| 5, it must have affected your self-esteem in some positive way.
|
| Now, what I wonder, is how regular people can develop such
| attitude, more or less on their own. Fake it 'til you make it?
| Incrementally become successful at things?
| corty wrote:
| Have rich parents shielding you from any negative consequence
| and providing a financial fallback.
| pc86 wrote:
| This seems overly dismissive.
| corty wrote:
| If you think so, please elaborate why and provide
| alternative explanations. Just dismissing my statement
| without any discussion is not only overly dismissive. It
| also is not a productive way of discussion, it doesn't add
| anything of value.
| tux3 wrote:
| Be mindful of survivorship bias.
|
| Lest people on twitter start posting pictures of the hypothetical
| WW2 planes that _came back_.
| rubicon33 wrote:
| For me, the bigger issue is really energy. I usually want to
| work, study, etc. How often do I have the mental spark of
| sufficient strength to tackle tough programming problems, or read
| really technical material? Certainly less often than I'd like.
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| IMO attitude is important, but equally important is managing your
| energy levels and optimizing your life around the ups and downs.
| Find habits and routines that promote energy, and avoid habits
| and routines that drain energy. This can actually be harder than
| it sounds to figure out.
| tome wrote:
| Think and Grow Rich in three minutes.
| armchairhacker wrote:
| Attitude really does determine your _subjective_ success. Because
| if you have a good attitude you can find optimism and success in
| almost anything.
|
| Trained for a half-marathon, only to get sick and miss / fail it?
| On the surface that looks like a failure, but it's really not.
| The real success is the training, the weight you lost and fitness
| you gained. Or even if you didn't lose weight, the muscle and
| habits you gained which will make it easier to lose weight later.
| Or maybe you don't even need to lose weight anyways, especially
| since you probably lost fat. The big race is only a demonstration
| of your training results.
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| Spent 6 months working on an app but never released it? That it
| can actually be a big "success" if you learned a lot from
| development. I can vouch that I've become a much better developer
| by making apps which were never released, and learned concepts
| from functional programming which I probably wouldn't have
| learned otherwise, because I wouldn't have seen the point.
|
| Built a company only for it to go bankrupt? Same as above, you
| get experience so that you'll do better next time.
|
| Idk how much attitude affects your objective success. Attitude
| won't help if your goal is flat-out unachievable or you don't
| have the luck / skill. I think the real reason attitude
| determines success is that, if you have a good attitude, you can
| basically change anything into a success.
| lazide wrote:
| There is also the reality that looking at things in that
| positive light tends to surface opportunities, more than
| looking at things negatively.
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| If you're feeling like you're doing well (despite the
| occasional hiccup) and will be successful, it's easier to be
| open to a new advisor, or a new employee, or a new investor. If
| you're constantly obsessed with how it is going wrong, you're
| constantly going to be focused on how these too could be a
| disaster.
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| As with many things in life, it's a balance. If you never
| recognize a risk, or recognize bad decisions as what they are
| and the factors behind them, then you'll get scammed a lot or
| constantly be blundering around repeating mistakes
| (potentially). If you hyper focus on them, you'll cut off all
| your opportunity and be constantly trying to guard an ever
| shrinking pie.
| pwdisswordfish8 wrote:
| "When you fail... pretend you had... a different goal... all
| along." Okay, got it.
| xkeysc0re wrote:
| When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
| tenfourwookie wrote:
| The Pivot Doctrine.
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