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gaycatastrophe · 1 year ago

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a silver spoon helps too

pushing the 'no such thing as inborn talent' line seems downright cruel sometimes

oh, no, it's not that i had any advantages over you. i just put in more work. no don't look at people who are getting far better results than you with half the effort, they don't exist. just bang your head against the wall harder, you lazy piece of shit.

you can say 'your skills can and will improve with practice' without saying 'the amount of practice you put in is literally the only thing that matters'. and you should, because the second thing is a fucking lie.

#there are a lot of people who THINK that they benefited entirely from hard work and perseverance or that their abilities are all inherent #talents. when the reality is they got a leg up from the start due to being rich #like its easier to study when you dont have to worry about where your next meal will come from or if you’re going to still have a roof over #your head tomorrow. even easier to study when your parents will pay out for a special tutoring class #and also easier to come off as smart early on when you had access to all the resources in the world to start reading and thinking about math #before you ever started school #like getting an early start on skills tends to have knock on effects at least up to a certain point #im yelling at my past self here mostly.#partly i AM just good at standardized tests and systematizing knowledge in my head #but its real hard to say if thats actually inherent or if its because i had a stay at home parent who also thinks and therefore teaches this #way. and i had access to logic games that build this skill. very very early in childhood

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