I look at it like basketball when you try to dunk on someone you either are gonna be known for being a beast who posterized a fool or you are gonna be known as the guy who pathetically attempted to dunk on someone and got thrown back so now you are disrespected by everybody and made fun of.
that's pretty much life. You try for something and risk failing, potentially looking like a fool. It all comes down to risk vs reward, and how good you are at dealing with failure. Trump has failed a million times in life. He's hated, mocked. The world waits for him to do anything they can criticize. But he's still president and I'm not. He still eats fine food and travels and lives in luxury. He knows how to fail at the dunk 20 times in a row and be made team captain for it. A big part of life is how we manage risk and deal with failure.
no in this scene it was some random champion that Achilles did f up but this guy has probably killed everybody but the best warrior in the fricken world.
Anyone can succeed with enough dedication. You think he'd have made it half as far if he were the sort to give up every time some nobody misspelled his name?
@matthewg- As opposed to the demigod granted magical powers....? The point was exactly that. Trump was born into riches and has lost them several times. A few days a go he told the world he was against babies being born from their mothers in the 9th month of pregnancy. He's been remarried, indicted, bankrupt, and arguably laughed at more than any president at least in recent history. And he's still rich and powerful because despite all that, when you tell him he can't win a presidential election he still ran. It doesn't mater what your politics are or personal opinion, he's a perfect example of a public figure who's embarrassed themselves and failed publicly many times over and has rebounded and managed to keep the lifestyle he wants. If you're going to hate him do it for all the reasons he deserves, when you try and turn a person into a cartoon villain you just make valid criticism seem like more blind propaganda.
famousone, what ever will I do with someone so insistent on missing the point.
Guest_, my issue is with risk/reward, because it is impossible for him to risk anything.
Subjectively I would agree in that he has he connections and fame to be quite resilient. No one is too big to fall flat though, and even bill gates could ruin himself with poorly managed risks. People like that must reach must further to over extend, but this is the same fallacy that causes lottery winners to go bankrupt. As we have seen in recent times with many in Hollywood- when your primary capital is your personal brand and support, if you lose that support through your actions you can fall. Subjectively I feel whatever dignity the man claims to have is not at risk, andnif it were he would just create a reality that suited his self image and be fine. Objectively though he has a reputation and trust with certain people and he can risk and lose that. He has a public image which love or hate has made him quite comfortable and influential- perhaps powerful. He can lose that. He may not fall as far as you or I but everyone can fall some ways.
I get a lot of what you're saying.
It'd shock the hell outta me, though, if he ever actually failed. It's a very real fear of mine that he's making an example of himself that simply can't be replicated (except by maybe the 0.1%), and if gains steam in the American psyche, it'll ruin us as a World Power.
Of course. Going by his track record going into a deal with Donald Trump usually ends well for him, not so well for his backers. There was another post on FD the other day about degrees in which Elon Musk proudly proclaimed he didn't have one. In the same tweet though he mentioned his employees do. There's very few Elon Musks, Donald Trumps, and Paris Hiltons in the world but many "employees." People want to believe they are special, they do t want to feel "less than" and say "they can do it I can do it!" But how many kids grow up to walk on the moon? Even if you qualified what are the odds? You try, you fail, you manage risk so if you don't end up walking on the moon you can still have a good life. Some people have less or easier risks to manage, or more support is all.
watched this 2 nights ago. Got mad cuz I was watching it downstairs off directv cuz my gmama can't get upstairs and the one on tv wasn't the extended cut, which I have upstairs on my computer. The tv downstairs is mounted to the wall, so connecting with an HDMI cable is a bitch.
Guest_, my issue is with risk/reward, because it is impossible for him to risk anything.
It'd shock the hell outta me, though, if he ever actually failed. It's a very real fear of mine that he's making an example of himself that simply can't be replicated (except by maybe the 0.1%), and if gains steam in the American psyche, it'll ruin us as a World Power.