By extremely far the most successful salarypeople I know are people who got early childhood traumatized out of social acceptance and who are doomed to seek it and whose path runs through MEGACORP-approval. Calling this the trauma economy.
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Not just salaries. Many entrepreneurs etc. skew heavily in this direction.
Having something to prove is a great, if toxic, motivator.
it sure is. the problem is that once you've proved it to yourself, it's hard to keep going even if you need the $
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Well, yes, assuming you ever prove it. Some people never seem to get there.
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I think entrepreneurs more so than salaries. Salaried people can just be brought up with a rich family so the default path was to go to a good school, get a good job.