Do you think you are special?
Since early childhood all I talked, watched and read was Technology. When I got home from school, I worked on C++ and built games by modelling physics, collisions etc. I frequented a ton of online forums for WebGL and other archaic tech that most of you don't even know about.
I knew all about the Silicon Valley, the stories and legends. I learned all about the history of technology and used to work deeply with my father with transistors, ECU/ECMs etc during weekends.
I thought I knew it all. I thought I was the deal. I remember schooling folks about all of this, making them realise they are dumb as hell. I remember when I stepped into my MS in CS program and attended a club meeting, I realized that I was just like everybody else.
They were all the same as me in hindsight. They knew the same things and lived and breathed the same passion. I knew I wasn't special. For the first time, I suffered ego-death. I thought I was special, and I was not.
This is just a reminder, that you are not special. You are less unique than you think you are. So lose that attitude.
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In a nutshell, we're just mental labourers and we're paid more than physical labourers not because we're smarter, it is done in order to compensate for the compromised health (lowers your testosterone, fucks reward system of your brain, causes deficiency, anxiety, myopia, backpain).
Agreed on attitude bit. There is always a bigger fish and more competition to decimate you. Just learn and swim upward. A learning attitude is a must.
There is also diminishing returns. The kid who could play 3 instruments at 5 didn’t magically learn 30 instruments at 25. Or the super smart kid in maths didn’t end up as a millionaire.
Talent may not lead to wealth or happiness
There is also diminishing returns. The kid who could play 3 instruments at 5 didn’t magically learn 30 instruments at 25. Or the super smart kid in maths didn’t end up as a millionaire.
Talent may not lead to wealth or happiness
There will always be someone better than you out there. Doesn't mean you don't matter at all either.
Unless you work at cred, that company itself doesn't matter 😂
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning, I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
- Coldplay
Its part of life I feel. You are either a big fish in small pond or a small fish in a big pond at various phases.
i feel that
Can't agree more.
This lesson or heads up should have come from your parents. You could have been in a smarter room when you were a kid. But your parents didn't realise that your ego is growing inflated. Now over the years you have built a mindset where you are used to being a special one but you also know that it's not the case. A day would come when someone publicly schools you in topics you are a noob, you won't be able to handle that. Bragging, even if a tiny bit, only makes other people jealous and they won't like that.
