• loxdogs@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Remember boys and girls, we born different, we build different. We have a lot in common, but than there are your relatives, friends, teachers, city where you were born etc. You can compare two things only if you have all other variables are equal, which is impossible. Doing your best is different everyday as well as every month and every year. Achievements of others shouldn’t bother you, only your life goals should.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        6 months ago

        Nobody is build incorrectly

        (yes I know it was about a typo, but this comment on its own looks to hostile)

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      It should also be mentioned that “talent” doesn’t exist. Anyone that is good at something has put a ton of time and effort into practice. You’re not born with skills, you refine them. Doesn’t matter if you’re an insanely skilled artist of some kind or if you’re a darkness-dwelling, aurora-ignoring retro game speed runner, if you’re good at something its because you earned that skill through countless hours of practice.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        nuh-UH. Nope.

        Talent ≠ practice ; talent + practice = greatness

        Thankfully it’s usually quite easy to dispel this myth by saying “then why are you bad at maths”. We all had the same number of hours in maths class as kids, but some had to practice WAY MORE to achieve a passable grade.

        Most people can’t be Mozart. Some dedicate their lives to music, and do not get a fraction of the way there.

        “Talent doesn’t exist” is a lie we tell ourselves as a society because our individualist culture sells us a pipe dream of personal greatness that many/most people literally aren’t equipped to achieve no matter how hard they try (and we should try regardless).

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    The really fun part is that the first few times this happens to you, you’re the same age and feel insecure that someone your age achieved more, but as you age in to your mediocrity you gradually get to see people who are younger and younger than you achieve more than you ever did, and now, likely ever will. But hey, there’s always the memes to take your mind off it… oh wait.