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- Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged was appealing, in part, because it gave the message that it was okay to be, not just good, but better than others
- but it also said that the reason for one's own failure is the "looters" who don't approve of that excellence, and that there is a conspiracy of mediocrity
- Rationality can be seen through a reasonableness-based view or a winning-based view
- the reasonableness-based view silently blames the rest of the world's unreasonableness for failures
- Rationality should adapt to others' strategies and not depend on them
- when faced with a probable failure, some people will start to impose handicaps on themselves to give an excuse for failure
- this does not mean that there aren't legitimate barriers to success, but it can also mean that failure is partially self-created
- "...what good does a sense of *violated entitlement do? At all? Ever? What good does it do to tell ourselves that we did everything right and deserved better, and that someone or something else is to blame? Is that the key thing we need to change, to do better next time?
Immediate adaptation to the realities of the situation! Followed by winning!"
