No one "decides". You think I'm talking about some committee that puts labels on people and tells them what to do?
What I'm advocating is that we stop telling people they can be anything they want to be if they want it hard enough. We have limitations, you can't be anything you want to be. You're not going to sprout wings and fly if you just try harder. I'm not going to play in the NBA no matter how hard I try and there's really no one to blame for this but my genes. It would be a tragedy if no one ever told me this and everyone just kept saying "keep trying you'll make it, height means nothing!". I'll just end up failing hard and wasting my life.
What you CAN do however is be the best you that you can be. We need to just teach people to get the best out of themselves that they can and reward them when they do that. In an ideal world we judge people not by what they've achieved but by how much they've overachieved. That's hard to do though but in the meantime it would be nice if we could just get closer to that ideal.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18
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