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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.  |
Irrelevant.
Giants make waves.
The achievers do their thing because it is their nature to try to be the best they can be so unless you set out to stunt the development of our best and brightest to protect the ego of the free riders you will get giants or they will go where they can grow to their natural ceiling.
The beauty of it is the achievers can and do come from everywhere and they play in every arena. For every about Gates or Gretsky or Brin or Musk we hear about there are hundreds of achievers safely beyond the reach of those that resent them. That can change but until it does civilization is (mostly) safe.
The subject kid might grow up to be a geneticist or a writer or an engineer or an artist.
There is no way of knowing how (or if) he will change the world to suit him until after he has done it. And there are a million more like him out there.
So resent them all you want, it won't change a thing.
As the library director is about to find out, talent plus drive will always find a way.