When everyone is trying to convince you that your circumstances will doom you to mediocrity or failure, that the world is rigged against you, that nobody who can help you will ever help someone *like* you... tuning all of that out is a legitimate superpower
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My advice: consume a lot of information, let yourself get rabbitholed. Read, think, and write a lot, but don't make it a chore. Reach out to your heroes, but also to people who produce great but less recognized work. Don't belittle yourself. Write emails you'd want to receive.
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Start helping other people in small ways right away. Really listen to people and think about who you know that could help them do what they're trying to do. Sincerely hope the people around you meet their highest potential, even if it's greater than yours
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If you can find a way to believe it, it'll also serve you very well to know that nearly everyone is full of pain and managing it to varying degrees of success. Money or success never spared anybody tragedy. Truly. So try to be warm and gentle even with the people "above" you
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There is an old saying that is as true as it is counterintuitive. "There is always room at the top".
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More intuitive when framed as “never crowded along the extra mile”
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I've come from a very similar place, Mason. It's affirming and encouraging to read this
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Yes but you have interesting person privilege
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I've never cared about networking. I prefer to "produce things" and that attracts others who produce things and a bond so much more than a university fraternity develops between us since we understand our mutual virtues. Now excuse me while I go read The Fountainhead again

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