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0 pointsranman6y ago0 comments

>All people have the ability to drive 110% on anything.

I don't believe this statement... I generally assume and believe the best in people but after years of working at large tech firms... some people are literally there to put in minimum effort needed to not get fired. Some people are actually even worse and will actively drive away the high performers with negativity and nothing you do or say will change their opinion.

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crimsonalucard6y ago

Yeah these people exist. But even these people have something that will drive them.

I'm not saying that you have to find the spark or that even everyone has the ability to find it. Sometimes, the challenge is so great that it's just not worth it or beyond your abilities.

But it's still there for everyone. If you're really really good, you can find out what it is for most people and trigger it.

m_fayer6y ago

>Sometimes, the challenge is so great that it's just not worth it or beyond your abilities.

Yeahhh. Sometimes, as you try ever harder to enable someone to succeed, you eventually realize you're becoming their therapist. Sometimes, you realize that enabling this one person to succeed would involve neglecting everyone else. Sometimes the necessary acceptance, equanimity, and nurturing are of such an absurd degree that it looks like special treatment, or indulgence, to any third party.

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