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The Wolf of Wall Street clip was a billion dollar idea. 🙌

@web3Collins I'm always looking forward to amazing stuff like this. You always over-deliver! Keep it up bro. 🤍🍷

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I have a habit of learning something new every day. Today, I learned about the Pygmalion effect. Basically, it is a psychological phenomenon which suggests that the higher and more positive the expectations placed on a person, the better their performance is likely to be. In other words, people often rise, or fall, to the expectations imposed upon them. Let me give an example. Say your workplace. When your boss consistently entrusts you with responsibility, expresses belief in your capacity, and creates an environment that allows you to stretch yourself, you are far more likely to outperform even your own expectations. Not because the work is lighter, but because the belief is heavier. The effect is named after the Myth of Pygmalion, a Greek sculptor who fell so deeply in love with his own creation that the gods, moved by his devotion, brought the sculpture to life.

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There’s a reason most of the westerners who fetishize IQ online tend to cluster around academia, research, policy analysis and think tanks. Their world rewards abstraction and credentialism and is a relatively closed system with Gaussian outcomes. Many of them have never created anything in genuinely chaotic environments or places where outcomes are mediated by other people, institutions, timing, incentives and sheer contingency. They mistake their local optimum for a universal one. So when they say IQ is “highly predictive of success,” what they really mean is success as they understand it which is success in linear, test-aligned, institutionally curated niches. Which is why things like educational attainment, job complexity an the like are always their set of examples, because these are in domains that are explicitly designed to reward the cognitive traits IQ tests measure. Although they may not admit it, many of them would be uncomfortable with the reality that a random online streamer who has accumulated leverage outside credentialed systems is more objectively successful than they are by the standards most people actually care about. When confronted with this, they either contest the word “objectively” or redefine success altogether retroactively reshaping the goalposts so their own position remains central and dignified. But for the majority of people, success is very simple lol. It is basically financial and social security, some optionality and leverage. It is the ability to absorb shocks and still remain standing. By those measures, being a highly intelligent but economically and socially fragile physics professor is not an obvious win. People who have actually built things especially people who grew up in environments where plans routinely collapse under political, economic, or social instability understand this instinctively. They know that real world success is non-linear, path-dependent, and deeply social. It involves many other people, many moving parts, and a great deal of effort applied over time. Crucially, they also understand something the IQ wankers hardly ever consider which is that effort is endogenously suppressed. People work hard when something matters to them. A lack of visible effort is not necessarily a lack of capacity any more than it is a lack of incentive, meaning, or perceived payoff. And effort plays a far greater role on mileage which compounds into success. The narrow, niched definition of success that IQ wankers cling to exists largely to preserve a clean 1 to 1 mapping between their test scores and their life outcomes. Interrogate their definitions very well and you’ll find an ego-soothing fiction somewhere there. But it is not how most people experience the world, and it is not the kind of success most people are trying to achieve.

@Mrpossidez Judging by the most socially perceived form of success, you'd be shocked to find that most people with "high IQ" are much more concentrated at the bottom of the list. And as they say, perception is reality.

@AskMichaelTaiwo Until they bookmark the article too. 🥲

We need an article to teach people how to read an article without bookmarking it.

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@CkanJohnson We're not there yet. We may get there, to that point where we prefer to talk only with our fingers, like digital mutes. But so far, well, I think we can still stay together in a room.

We’ve become ghosts. All this connection, all these networks, but put us in a room and we don’t know how to show up anymore. We forgot how to just… be.

@lichthauch The first way to find a wife, is to find a friend who doesn't want you to be more than a friend.

If she can imagine her life without you she is already living it. you are just the body still standing in the room. if she has to convince herself to stay she already left. the body follows the mind it just takes longer. if she tells her friends you are good to her that is the warning. good to her. like a dog. the ones who stay in her blood were never good to her they were inside her before she could decide and she hates this and cannot fix it and you will never be that by trying to be that. trying is the thing that makes it impossible. she knows when she is being chosen and she knows when she is being needed and these are not the same

Content is indoctrination.

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@Mrpossidez Most people—I may be one of them— are lazy, and this is why fun is still the best way to learn. Fiction, self help, they both aim to teach. Only that one is more fun, I think.

@sacredscreen Love this, it’s a grounded take and I see how your preference is reflected even in the way you comment on posts here.

We sometimes forget that social media is a recent invention and that if it existed from time immemorial, most books would not exist. There’s no difference between a book and a well written Twitter article, functionally. But many performative people here would “book” mark that article and swear they will NEVER read a self help book. There is nothing in that article that isn’t well documented in various self help books and just like the article is not self-enforcing, no self help books is intended to hand-hold you through personal development, at best they give you insights or perspectives. But ironically, only books get the flak for being too abstract, too subjective and what-not. It is far more intellectually honest to admit (1) that you don’t like reading certain genres of books because they’re more cognitively demanding as opposed to other genres that are more relaxing, or (2) that the structured nature of books in general can induce anxiety and you prefer to stumble on interesting things to read (which social media makes easy). These are perfectly reasonable reasons. What is utterly performative is the continuous denigration of a sub category of books as serving no purpose, when the vast majority of people barely read ANY books. Unsurprisingly, the people who really like reading are the ones likely to read that long article for the same reason they would casually pick up a book to read. Self help or otherwise. Most of you here perform your intelligence as you perform your criticisms. Neither is that deep.

@lichthauch It's 8:31pm. Take a walk down a quiet street.

It's a great day to walk into a dark forest because the world outside the forest is fake and a psyop, optimized for making you depressed. trees don't have opinions about your life choices, and getting genuinely lost for a few hours does more for you than 10,000 hours of intrusive thoughts ever did, and also there's a non-zero chance you'll find something in there that changes everything or at least makes you realize most of your problems are just you being terminally online

@enyinna_ It seems my dad was right. As erratic as he can be, he remains the first person I should listen to.

Take advice, first, from people who are so invested in you, that they’d be directly affected by your failure.