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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.
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Success
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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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.
diagnosis
Jiang says success traits such as early rising, hard work, resilience, and growth mindset do not cause success by themselves; they often follow from already being successful or rich.
definition
Luck can be strategized but not eliminated: successful people position themselves where luck can happen, but the outcome still depends on luck.
history
Jiang says the program succeeded by conventional standards, including student outcomes and regional reputation, but the same stakeholders still pushed him out.
model
Jacob Frank is introduced as Zevi’s reincarnated successor who turns the movement into a worldly success religion against Judaism.
model
Harvard is interested less in academics than in institutional power, so “best” means most likely to succeed publicly rather than smartest.
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"...fall of western world can we generalize that you know after success people will fall then what's the meaning of success okay that's um"
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"a great question okay so we know that if you become successful you will not be happy why do people um go and succeed..."
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"yeah. Okay. According to game theory, what happens is team ten wins. And this is exactly what happens. The results are reversed. Okay? Number..."
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"You're much more likely to focus on relationships. Okay? So, in China, there's a joke, right? In school, there are two people that everyone..."
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"Today we look at the question of success, okay? The question is, who succeeds and why? Okay, so we've done a lot of research..."
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"And you can have it right now. But if I come back and the marshmallow is still there, I will give you two marshmallows,..."
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"...effect, okay? And so the idea is that for Walter Mischel, success means delayed gratification. And all this means is that people who succeed..."
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"Okay? You guys need to remember this. Just because things are correlated does not mean they cause each other. So I'll give you an..."
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"Okay? Does that make sense? But just because you have growth mindset, deliberate practice, and resilience, does not mean you succeed. Okay? So the..."
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"Can be luck counted as a kind of ability or it's just coincidence?"
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"Okay. That's a really good question. Yeah. Okay. Yup. So you're absolutely right. Okay? So luck is a form of strategy. Okay? Strategy. And..."
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"of problems in beginning it became a very effective system after a semester or a year and not only that the students who went..."
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