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Originally Posted by Mivo
Looking at the world, I'm not sure it's beneficial for the "rest of us" to be dragged by those who put personal achievement over everything.  |
Obviously this is correct. Most dictators for example are not benevolent.
I was speaking of achievers, not people who put achieving over everything, but those who see develop new ideas and/or those who do something because it should be done.
Someone, or multiple someones, figured out how to start a fire, build a hut, plant grain, fashion clay pots and fight disease.
Frankly I am for the most part happy that they did. There are those who would be happier living in caves as long as everyone else had to do it too. For them it is definitely preferable that everyone gets a prize. Me, I do like my sliced bread and electricity and adequate medical care etc.
I think I prefer my doctor, for instance, to be an overachiever.
Helen