Is there a generalized word for having aspirations to something better than your skill/effort/actions can get you? I feel like sense of entitlement kind of covers it but a) is a long phrase and b) also applies to things you’re actually entitled to
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Like the bitterness of people who think they should be winning at something but are unwilling to put in the hours of practice necessary seems like it applies in a lot of situations
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Resistance to fundamental steps towards the end goalpic.twitter.com/Akc8Ff9S6w
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Of course most of the things that people have a resistant bitterness to taking steps to achieve the steps have a much more abstract and/or stochastic relationship to the desiderata
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If you want to win at poker you have to play a lot of hands. You won’t win most hands you play. So if you want to win at poker you have to lose a lot of hands. If you don’t have the right mindset this is intractably frustrating. Is the right mindset trainable? Generalizable?
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salesman / PUA mindset "get hung up on 100 times", "fail to number close 100 times", etc.
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You have to simultaneously care and not care. Care enough about the end goal to not care about the intermediate failures maybe
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There’s also the conflict between “I am good enough and deserve x!” And “I am not good enough and don’t deserve x!”
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2x2 matrix: "I'm not good enough and I will deserve it ... once I pass the test".
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Yeah but are you good enough to even attempt the test? Many such cases
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Replying to @drethelin @ngvrnd
staged tests this is well developed social tech (which we're drifting away from) Boy Scouts perfected this, btw 11 yo kid vaguely dreams of becoming Eagle Scout, intensely plans to be Tenderfoot, laser focuses on the first of 3 merit badges he needs to get there
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