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> this attitude is a mental pretzel more akin to ideology than fact.

Of course that's the case, because you are baking your own misleading slant into questions and then wondering why the output of the questioning process is not satisfactory

Slant such as:

>"...If hard work had no effect..."

Which is not something that's being argued for. It is just a strawman of your own making to the points raised

Id recommend you to do introspection on manicheist type thinking, and the difference between aggregate results of "Luck+Hard Work" vs the "Luck"/"Hard Work" work binary thinking.

I can't solve your errors of thinking, you'll have to work hard to understand the problem, or maybe you'll be one of the lucky few to understand it with ease :)



The condescending, passive aggressive reply, filled with “you must look within” tropes and topped off with a smiley face. Is there anything more irritating?


Just dont add the slant to the questions next time, it is just ...... not even unnecessary, it is counterproductive for you and everyone, to the other person is just as irritating as what I did to you with the previous reply + smiley

Or alternatively go watch that veritasium video that's being shared over the thread, it is very good




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