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Meh, indeed. It felt very condescending, repetitive of lessons taught by others, and not fully inclusive. In the intro it references things equivalent to jumping off a cliff and then learning to fly...as if that works for everybody. No mention of those who fail to fly and plummet to their death. Those who quit their stable jobs and invested all their savings in poorly thought of inventions or careers they most likely wouldn't be successful at. Those that moved to New York or Hollywood at 18-yrs old to be the next big thing, only to end up serving coffee at a local diner/waitressing at Denny's. I get the point that's trying to be made here, but the [explicitive deleted] does the guy think he is? What gives him the right to judge people? Say what they can and can't do? Also, why does he think you can't do amazing things because of these reasons? What constitutes amazing to him? I can think of numerous people who the general populous who consider amazing and much of them falling under more than 3 of the characteristics; trumping his message to some extent.
Take for example Lebron James. I think we'd all say he's done some amazing things. Now let's look at the list...
1. Hasn't failed enough? No. Dude has basically been crowned the GOAT, equal to Michael Jordan and doesn't come close to the amount of failures MJ had in his career.
2. Cares what people think of him? Absolutely. Definitely can't take being viewed as the villain (see aftermath of "the Decision"). But yet he's still top of the league.
In terms of #1, you could argue that his failures in Cleveland and losing the Finals to the Mavs led him to be the truly dominant player his is now.
And with #2, if he cared what people thought, would he have even left Cleveland.
These aren't hard + fast rules. I'm sure it's easy to find exceptions, epecially, as you mentioned, a physical specimen like Lebron or Floyd etc.
But even those guys have failures that drive them.
Thought the article made some good points though.
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