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The Return on Aspirations of Young People
Sly: Why does raising aspirations work? Like, how do people get stuck in low aspiration equilibriums if they 're really so talented? Go back and look at the florentine renaissance. Silican valley is just a ambition raising machine by virtue of no one really tells you you should be doing more. You just see other people doing more. And where we're pretty mematic as a species, everyone has moments where they're not imatace. But tem ah, for the most part, most of people's days, even geniuss days, are memetic. So raising ambitions, as, you know, a great way to basically lift up someone's
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