Be careful about spreading the idea that adversity leads to… - Paul Graham

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Be careful about spreading the idea that adversity leads to success. It may, in some cases, but you want to be precise about which cases, and sure of your evidence. Otherwise you're implicitly telling parents to maltreat their kids.

Paul Graham

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Paul Graham (born 1964) is an English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author. He is best known for his work on the programming language Lisp, his former startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), cofounding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.

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