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Originally Posted by flamesfever
I think most success comes from those that are not only smarter and more productive, but have the gift of foresight. They ask themselves the question, "What do people need now and are going to need in the foreseeable future?"
This idea became evident to me by tracing my family history. I learned how six Irish brothers, who emigrated to Canada in the mid 1800s because of the potato famine, were successful in establishing their own business. Two were bakers (everyone has to eat), three owned hotels (everyone has to have a roof over their heads), and one owned a hardware store (everyone has to repair stuff).
Of course other factors come into play, like access to capital, ability to take risks, and in exercising many of the basic rules of life penned by Peterson.
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Exactly. And if your ancestors were to get rich off of hotels, that means a lot of people consensually transacted with that hotel because it made their experience better.
To tie this back to Peterson I was watching a video of his where he talked about the pradeau (sp?) distribution of certain populations. According to him it's a distinct sociological phenomenon that in any group 10% of the population will produce 50% of the output. Doesn't matter if it's lawyers, geologists or farmers. That 10% is selected for by natural aptitude, and it benefits the whole population because without that 50% everyone would suffer. That was one of the contributing factors in the Ukrainian famine in the 1930s, the Bolsheviks punished the 10% successful farmers because they were idealougues who were certain that these people had cheated or stolen from the less successful farmers. The result was a dip in food production of 50% and mass starvation.