Reality will catch up with your hard work/intelligence/brilliance This a corollary of “Karma is real”. The standard advice to poor and middle-class children is “Work hard, kiddo. You’ll get what you want in the end”. Wishful thinking all over again . Your brilliance might get never chance to shine. Two equally good entreprenuers but one with walking out of IIT will have vastly different experiences when it comes hiring and fundraising . My life completely changed once I had the BITS tag. I’ve been accumulating connections, advantages, and opportunities for a decade without doing anything different . While someone equally brilliant with bad luck or just a bad time during their exams, might never be able to catch to the initial advantage I got. Cumulative advantages aka the Mathew effect is real.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” Apologies, Martin Luther and Theodore Parker. The universe does not come with morality or justice, it just comes with the 4 fundamental forces . We are just in a incredible and actively try to push the social equilibrium towards justice, but no guarantees or support from the universe’s end.

Everyone who is successful is special and did something brilliant Human’s are not rational, we are rationalisers. Your conscious brain processes only a small part of what the information your senses get. and it finds things out a whole half second late . Using computers we can beat the brain by 7 seconds.

Which means we construct reasons for someone’s success after we have subconsciously liked them. Over a long period we mythologise people. Hence, the saying “Never meet your heroes” . They’re just human.

Nihilism is a sad depressed existence It is initially shocking that there are no rules. Once you accept that you realise, you can make the rules and do whatever the fuck you want! Guilt-free! All objections are non-sensical. Whatever happens, happens for good Ask the kids with congenital defects or people who die due to war, famine or pestilence. Note: Post cut short due to power cut