For some people, opportunities seem endless every day, another offer, another chance to be more famous, or recognised, more wealthy, more popular, more successful.
For others in our society, the opportunities never seem to come, and even when that one chance does, the people who it's offered to simply don't have the skills or the experience or the support or the love or the care to be able to take it.
Malcolm Gladwell did this beautifully on his podcast.
Some kids in Los Angeles they got no chance. They might get one small sniff of an opportunity for something a little bit better, but for whatever reason, if they are unable to take it, it never comes again, and that's it.
For others in that city (and everywhere else in the Western world), there are people on the right side of the barrier who get chance after chance after chance. Even if they make an arse of it for the 1st 10 times, there will be an 11th around the corner.
How to fix this?
A problem beyond all problems, a true hyper-object.
Perhaps philosophically, the only thing to understand is that the guys on the good side of the barrier are burning out because they keep taking all the opportunities: too much to do, too little time, exhaustion, burnout, lack of self-esteem, and failure.
If they could only take 1 or 2 of those opportunities and give them to someone on the other side and help them to take them, everybody would win massively.
It is hard to cast aside the cloak of self-protection and to give something that you thought was yours away to someone else to make it better all-round.
How do we square this circle?
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