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jodrellblank on Nov 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: If you want to get rich, stop being a fucking joke...

To say that is to miss the point completely.

He's not telling someone not to go to their classes, he's illustrating the sort of behaviour change necessary between "I tried" and "I did it".

He doesn't "want a cookie" for working 20 hours on a Sunday night, he's illustrating the attitude shift between "I tried" and "I said I'd do it, so I did it".

anjc on Nov 17, 2011 [–]

This is such Americanized bullshit. There's no difference between the two.

jodrellblank on Nov 17, 2011 | [–]

That's like saying there's no difference between manslaughter and murder.

The outcome may appear no different - success or failure - but the mental state is different, and the path to the outcome may be.

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