POV: Exceptions🤔🤔🫡🫡🫡
The speaker argues that the vast majority of people cannot achieve certain academic or intellectual milestones past a certain age. While acknowledging exceptions exist, they caution against generalizing rare exceptions and applying them to oneself.
Summary
In this brief clip, the speaker makes a pointed observation about age and the capacity to study or learn at a high level. They assert that 99.999% of people — no matter how many nines you add — simply cannot read or study at a certain level of intensity or depth. The speaker attributes this to a lack of 'edge,' suggesting that once a person crosses a certain age threshold, it becomes extremely difficult to maintain that kind of rigorous academic or intellectual pursuit.
The speaker does acknowledge that exceptions ('course exceptions') always exist — there will always be outliers who manage to do what most cannot. However, the core argument is a caution against taking those exceptions and generalizing them to one's own situation. The speaker frames this as a matter of wisdom, stating that applying rare exceptions to yourself as if they are the norm is simply not smart thinking.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims that 99.999% of people cannot sustain a certain level of reading or studying, no matter how many nines you add to that percentage — framing it as an almost absolute limitation.
- The speaker argues that there is a specific 'edge' or sharpness required for high-level learning, and once a person crosses a certain age, that edge is largely gone and very hard to recover.
- The speaker concedes that exceptions to this age-based limitation do exist, using the phrase 'course exceptions are always there' to acknowledge outliers.
- The speaker's central argument is that generalizing rare exceptions and applying them to one's own life is a form of poor judgment or lack of wisdom ('akalmandi nahi hai').
- The speaker implicitly warns against using outlier success stories as personal benchmarks, suggesting this kind of thinking leads people to unrealistic self-assessments.
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[0:00] 99.999 जितने मर्जी न जोड़ लो। इतने परसेंट लोग नहीं पढ़ेंगे। पढ़ ही नहीं सकते यार। वह एज नहीं होती है। मतलब एक बार आप एज पार कर जाते हो ना बहुत मुश्किल काम हो जाता है। कोर्स एक्सेप्शनंस आर ऑलवेज देयर। लेकिन एक्सेप्शन को जनरलाइज करके अपने ऊपर ले आना। दैट इज नॉट मतलब यह अकलमंदी नहीं है बिल्कुल भी।
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