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Jiang says everyone who truly enters Purgatory succeeds, because entrance already means the soul has chosen growth rather than stagnation.
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Success
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Key Notes
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Jiang does not deny that this motivational strategy can work instrumentally; he explicitly notes that many students do reach elite universities through it.
model
The class explicitly contrasts alchemists, who cannot really change nature, with falsifiers, who do succeed in changing human belief and the course of events.
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A student says directed education imposes a single definition of success, and Jiang immediately accepts the point.
diagnosis
Jiang adds that a narrow definition of success and degraded aesthetic standards belong on the same decline ledger.
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In answer to the student, Jiang distinguishes happiness from success: happiness comes from family, love, community, meaning, purpose, and generosity, not wealth.
diagnosis
The best student and worst student are both likely to succeed for opposite reasons, but the worst student's adaptation, hard work, relationships, and team-building make him especially powerful.
model
Jiang presents delayed gratification as the first standard theory of success: the successful child can defer immediate pleasure for a larger future reward.
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"the way everyone is successful like once you enter purgatory you will succeed right because"
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"And I'm sure a lot of your students have succeeded, right? They've gone to like really top universities."
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"For alchemy, we said that to an extent it's futile because it's too much. It has to do with your will, but I'm not..."
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"But how do they succeed? What allowed them to succeed in a way that alchemists cannot succeed? Alchemists want to change the nature. They..."
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"directed education so giving one definition of what it means to be successful exactly yes"
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"a narrow definition of success yes uh yes degradation in the aesthetic standards okay great so i'm convinced we are totally screwed okay all..."
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"There's direction to my life. And being with my kids, hugging them, seeing their smiles just fills me with energy and purpose and optimism...."
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"Let's give him some credit, okay? That takes some talent to pull off. Like to deal with Bill Clinton and Bill Gates at the..."
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"But would you, would you consider Epstein a successful man because he's immortalized and he's going to be remembered?"
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"Um, you know, that's a really difficult question. Um, I think, I think, I think you, I think Andrew Tate is right. I think..."
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