Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

When you look at yourself, do you congratulate yourself and say “my, I was scrappy?” Or do you say, “wow, I got lucky?” Which one promotes arrogance?

This is an insanely unhealthy perspective that you will simply not find among many people who have accomplished unlikely things.

Is it healthy to be arrogant about your own accomplishments and without compassion towards the lack of accomplishments of others?

Non-sequitur

Actually it’s not. It’s directly related to the frames we see ourselves and others, which is directly tied to our belief in free will, which you seem to still retain

I think you're bought into a terribly black-and-white perspective that's likely to hobble you at every step.

Our conversation, summarized: Me: “This is my idea of what I think Sam is trying to say” You: “That is a bad idea and you are a bad person for believing it!”