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[Mawlzy]

If you read anything i said, you would know i agree.


I simply hate when people say they are incapable without putting in any effort to try.

If this is in reference to me, may I ask how you know how much effort I have put in?

I guess you know absolutely everything about the abilities of people you have never met, so you must be psychic or something?

Do you suppose I would openly admit to my gaming inadequacies had I not spent hundreds of hours assessing them for myself? Honestly it's slightly embarrassing that a child could complete these hand-eye coordination tasks and I can't, but here we are.

It's completely analogous to the fact that my chess Elo in rapid and blitz were indistinguishable 40 years ago, whereas now the two are offset by 400 points. I process information slower.

One reason I've been brutally honest about my limitations is to show solidarity with and support to others who are abused for being "lazy" and "self-sabotaging" and "defeatist" and a host of other insults. Anyone making such judgments would hang their heads in shame if they had one iota of empathy.

[CidHeiral]

The three people most associated with that phrase are Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, and Walt Disney.

And free will doesn't exist.

I mean, you literally said "everybody can achieve anything if they put their mind into it", which you'll excuse me sounded pretty much differently, but if that was just about believing in one's dreams and have confidence, then I guess this is a storm in a kettle then. And it's pretty much besides the point that is whether or not you have such dreams, aspirations and goes to begin with. A lot of people just don't, and assuming that they do, or consistently insisting or telling them that they could, really reminded me of that person I know that was told by americans, verbatim, that if they also know carpentry beyond their gardening little job, then they should start designing garden pagodas and whatnot and mount a business out of it.

Alright, I have no desire to continue talking in circles. Clearly we have a fundamental difference in worldview and that's fine. I came here to leave a nice comment to someone, not debate the nature of human potential. Let's leave it at that.