You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.
adulting itu rumusnya cuma “never asking why”
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Poverty is rarely a lack of ambition, it is a lack of opportunity.
Before i label someone as "lazy", i always remember that no one chooses to beg.
They are fighting a systemic cage and a mind exhausted by survival.
No child ever looked into the future and said, "i want to live on charity."
What looks like a lack of effort from the outside is often the invisible weight of mental blocks and a system designed to keep them down
They are not begging because they are lazy. They are begging because the system broke their ladders, and trauma blocked their view of the sky -
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There's a 14-year study that quietly explains every brilliant person you know who never did anything with it.
Karen Arnold tracked 81 high school valedictorians from the class of 1981 for 14 years. They kept getting top grades in college. They landed solid, respectable careers. And almost none of them ever broke new ground or built anything that mattered. Her own description of the group: not mold-breakers. "They get school," she said.
That's the whole tell. School measures one trait with religious intensity, which is how well you execute work that someone else assigns and grades. Valedictorian is the trophy for being the single best person in the building at completing other people's instructions. It is a real skill. It also has a brutal expiration date. The morning after graduation, the assignments stop coming and nobody ever hands you the rubric again.
Now look at the "mid" people who outran them. While the valedictorian was perfecting the assigned task, the B-students were getting comfortable with the ungraded one. Cold outreach. Starting things that might publicly fail. Asking for the raise. Building an audience before anyone gave permission. School tests for none of that. The world after school tests for almost nothing else.
Which is why the MIT math kid tending bar in Florida is the most interesting person in this post, not the cautionary tale he's being filed as. He stopped optimizing for a scoreboard built by someone else. The writer has enough money to walk away from the whole game and is calling that condition "burned out." By their own math, the smartest move described anywhere in the thread is the one they're too scared to make.
School spends 18 years rewarding you for never once questioning the assignment. Then it sets you loose in a world where the entire game is choosing your own.