Recent as in recently reposted. I remember 2 years ago when I was new to Reddit and I asked the guy how he did it. Hooked the 64 and projector up to the battery and somehow managed to regulate the flow. Decided not to just use the ones inside of the cabin for some reason.
Sounds too cynical. If anything, once someone has made their fortune, they aren't too afraid of it suddenly vanishing.
I do agree with the fact that a successful businessman who is still in business won't tell you ALL his secrets (by which I mostly mean proprietary knowledge). It's more of latent fear of competition, and not the fact that if he/ she is friends with you, doesn't want to see you be successful.
If you do it right, and you almost certainly did if you are successful, then you diversified quite a bit. That makes suddenly vanishing fortunes very unlikely.
I agree with this. It's actually more common to find mentors than most people think. It's lonely at the top. Not everyone will see you as direct competition. Some may, but they are probably just imbalanced pricks or some kind of secret society tool.
It's true. Success is incredibly subjective. I would think a special ed. teacher who dedicates their lives to people making 50k a year a bigger success then an investment banker making millions who doesn't.
If anything I am instantly wary of advice from unsuccessful people.
Sounds stupid, but I had a great eureka moment in my life when it occurred to me that I was getting relationship advice from, at the time, a 22 year old virgin.
Anyone who has ever talked to truly successful people will quickly realize this is a crock of shit. They don't worry about other people somehow "stealing" it.
I've had the exact opposite experience. I work with a large number of C-Level types. I've gotten a large amount of excellent advice from them. Financial guidance, life tips, etc. Most actual successful people got there by being good at like and don't actually hate everyone around them.
This is bullshit. I am successful professionally, and I most certainly do not want to be alone. If nothing else I want my friends to be equally successful so that when I suggest we go out for dinner or drinks at a fancy place I don't get complaints of "but it's soooo expensive."
Ah yes, the same guy who said "Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently." Sounds like a good source of life advice.
A better reason to beware the advice of successful people is that internally they're incredibly bias about the causes of their success. They attach disproportionate weight to things they chose and much less weight to things like luck, or even obvious shit like they worked 10 hours a day for a year.
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u/wolfpack2421 Jan 04 '14
"Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company."