Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't" video.

  1. A highly successful person once told me that he simply got lucky and that he didn't know how to repeat that success today. :-)
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  2. And none of that makes any difference if the child is not interested in learning.
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  3. Asians are, on average, not better at math than the remainder of the world's population. Many Asian kids simply have parents that make them work hard in school. The other ingredients that prosperous societies need are freedom, human rights, legal certainty, healthcare and money. The US has most of those, with exception of proper healthcare.
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  4. The US has some of the best mathematicians, physicists and engineers in the world. That "we" are bad at anything is total bollocks. Yes, many individuals don't give a damn because they think that they are pretty/athletic/artistically gifted enough to make it without STEM. Others just don't give a damn, period. Those are decisions that individuals are making for themselves. There is no collective "we" in the matter.
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