Well put, John Hawkins.
Hollywood needs to get with American jobs.
Jobs.
The other side of this coin, the far bigger side of the coin, if you will, is that you can be one of the uncountable people who "worked their behinds off, day-in and day-out" and never hit it big. This is true not only of sports teams and movie casts, but Silicon Valley start-up employee rosters and Fortune 500 upper management ranks.
This is the mentality that makes people think that the “rich” and “successful” must either be lucky or alternately, they must have done something wrong by default.
Half true, half motivational speaker "you can be anything you want to be" happy-talk to keep you on the treadmill all your life. Again, you can be as good of a software engineer as a guy who's already got a million dollars worth of google stock, but maybe you didn't live here when they were interviewing for that position. Or any of a million other differences that have nothing to do with your skill.
Asserting that luck can never have anything to do with the success of Person A vs Person B is simply foul propaganda to explain away the simple fact that we cannot all be millionaires, so many of the rest of us are working our behinds off, day-in and day-out, simply to enrich those higher up in the economic food chain.
“It’s not about doing the right thing, it’s about doing the right thing every day, over and over for decades.”
Yep. No other way around it.
Hollywood and lying are interchangeable words.
My only complaint is that he misunderstands Bilbo’s role in The Hobbit.
It’s not very difficult to be one of the BEST in your industry.
I am the absolute BEST in the trucking field. ALWAYS on time, NEVER had an accident, impeccable customer service skills, etc and my company has acknowledge my brilliance with pay bonuses along with recognition.
However this industry is NOT going to make you rich and quite frankly, I’m rather bored with it as trucking is just a job.
I know my limitations but most people STILL do not.
Dreams are nice but in reality, 90% of us will work in jobs we don’t particular care for in order to pay for homes and feed our children.
It’s called LIFE and humans have been doing it for a couple thousand years.
I see so many of my friends raising their children to believe that they have marvelous futures ahead of them because they are just so WONDERFUL and SPECIAL that they will surely be rewarded just for showing up.
My folks taught us that we had a reasonable future ahead of us if we found out what we were good at and worked like dogs to make it happen.
Once I was goofing around with my Dad and I said, “Maybe I’ll just marry a rich man!” He replied, “Where are you going to meet him? At the bus stop?”
So yes, to make it, you have to show up...but you have to show up with SOMETHING.
Some kids have so much Hollyweird influence today as if that is their education and source of reference. Kids should be taught and modeled how to work for success and then how to handle and balance finances. The non_hard work and entitlement mentality plus everyone is a star to be found mentality of Hollyweird is a poor source of reference for a successful future save for a few. Besides most Hollyweird stars are scrooged up in the head.
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>>69% earned their wealth mostly by trading time and effort for money, or by “working.”
It is worth noting they also attained that wealth by living below their means enough to accumulate those investible assets.
And what should be the most outrageous insult of all, your community organizer/president will tell you that,
"You didn't build that!!! Someone else did!!!"
Plus, their children were raised to be similarly industrious, shrewd citizens. Their children turned out better than the children of rich parents who gave their kids everything and didn't expect much out of them. Many of the rich, lazy kids who were simply given a lot of money without having to work for it soon spent their inheritance and didn't know how to make money.