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Based?

>> No.20562296

>>20562078
No

>> No.20562333
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>>20562078
It's a nice platitude but it's low resolution thinking. Pressing on is done in service to talent, genius, education, and any other proposition Coolidge might've disliked. The whole world is 'pressing on' straight over a cliff.

>> No.20562356

>>20562078
He’s right, basically. Even on a civilizational level. When a civilization grows content and stops pushing on, they grow decadent.

>> No.20562464

based
t. smart but lazy like most other zoomers on this board

>> No.20562517

Yeah, he's completely right. Obviously the other qualities he mentioned are good to have also but we sometimes underestimate just how hard people worked in the past nowadays. I don't know why. Maybe it's because we consider their achievements to be more trivial nowadays or maybe we're just more used to an easier lifestyle nowadays with more distractions; but people tend to forget just how obsessive the "big names" were in their time at getting their work to be right or perfect. Newton, da Vinci, Shakespeare, etc. weren't just winging it the entire time (even if they took breaks every now and again). From their work you can clearly see just how much they were drawing on other authors and creators and just how much studying they were doing to point which we would consider to be obsessive. They were successful because they were highly determined people. Yes, sometimes hacks see success, but determination and persistance really are important qualities.