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smoakee t1_j9vy56n wrote

“Figuring life out alone.” Sounds so much more exciting than standing on some giant shoulder.

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TreatThompson OP t1_j9w1m05 wrote

In some sense yeah it does!

In another sense standing on the shoulders of giants is more exciting because we get to blaze new trails that they couldn’t blaze. Progress is made by building off the backs of what others did

We get to pick up the mantle and take it further, rather than running the same race they did.

So by doing it alone and ignoring the giants we just do what they did already, which sounds a little boring

Hope that makes sense 😅 it’s definitely open to interpretation—I don’t think there’s a one size fits all advice for anything

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