人们可以非常聪明或拥有直接适用的技能,但如果他们不真正相信它,那么他们就不会真正努力工作。
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
You have to be willing to take risks.
The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.