Bright Start May Just Mean Dull End

Posted on November 24, 2008
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The common sense is, if you’re smart, you’re smart your whole life, and that usually comes with success. So if you’re not smart at all, you’ll know it since earlier ages. And it goes like this, smart kids usually end up in prestigious schools and hold the key to future; while not-so-smart kids will fill up the society (you know, like the majority of us). So when people say “bright start,” it implicitly means “bright future” as well.

Well, if it’s always like that, there wouldn’t be any losers. Why? If you, and others, don’t expect too much of yourself, you won’t feel unhappy as things turn out not so good. But when you start expecting too much, you’ll feel real pains when life turns south. And I believe that’s the concept of “losers.”

I want to give many examples, but I don’t know that many, although I hope you do. Perhaps the best example would be for some Hollywood movie stars, I mean, the not-so-successful ones. When the Seinfeld sitcom got so popular, people all expected each of the cast members to be successful later. Well, sure you see most of them got a role in some movie here and there, but none of them ended up anywhere near that expectation. Call them losers? Not quite, since they make more money than any average American, yet in some sense they’re indeed the losers. My point is, it’s the comparison (to expectation) that makes one feel like a loser.

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