> How do you avoid being envious of "legit" individuals (i.e those who achieved greater success coming from far adverse situations
and, unexplained, why wouldn't you still be envious of people who had all the advantages you didn't? It comes off a bit more like sour grapes.
Envy is a natural base human emotion, that's why it was put in the 10 commandments 6 or more thousand years ago. Don't deny you have it, we all do, acknowledge it for what it is, and use it to stimulate yourself to strive harder/better, or give up on what is unattainable and move on to more satisfying goals.
And btw, there are exceptionally good students just like there are exceptionally good athletes, without regard to their background. People, including lousy athletes, applaud good athletes. On HN, it's a constant drumbeat of "it's unfair to test me in my chosen field, it's unfair to look at my scores, it's unfair to judge me, just give ME the job, then I'll show you"
and, unexplained, why wouldn't you still be envious of people who had all the advantages you didn't? It comes off a bit more like sour grapes.
Envy is a natural base human emotion, that's why it was put in the 10 commandments 6 or more thousand years ago. Don't deny you have it, we all do, acknowledge it for what it is, and use it to stimulate yourself to strive harder/better, or give up on what is unattainable and move on to more satisfying goals.
And btw, there are exceptionally good students just like there are exceptionally good athletes, without regard to their background. People, including lousy athletes, applaud good athletes. On HN, it's a constant drumbeat of "it's unfair to test me in my chosen field, it's unfair to look at my scores, it's unfair to judge me, just give ME the job, then I'll show you"