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I
once
knew
a
guy
;
we
’
ll
call
him
Jimmy
.
Jimmy
always
had
various
business
ventures
going
.
On
any
given
day
,
if
you
asked
him
what
he
was
doing
,
he
’
d
rattle
off
the
name
of
some
firm
he
was
consulting
with
,
or
he
’
d
describe
a
promising
medical
app
he
was
looking
for
angel
investors
to
fund
,
or
he
’
d
talk
about
some
charity
event
he
was
supposed
to
be
the
keynote
speaker
for
,
or
how
he
had
an
idea
for
a
more
efficient
type
of
gas
pump
that
was
going
to
make
him
billions
.
The
guy
was
always
rolling
,
always
on
,
and
if
you
gave
him
an
inch
of
conversational
daylight
,
he
’
d
pulverize
you
about
how
world
-
spinning
his
work
was
,
how
brilliant
his
latest
ideas
were
,
and
he
’
d
name
-
drop
so
much
it
felt
like
you
were
talking
to
a
tabloid
reporter
.
Jimmy
was
all
positivity
all
the
time
.
Always
pushing
himself
,
always
working
an
angle
—
a
real
go
-
getter
,
whatever
the
fuck
that
means
.
The
catch
was
that
Jimmy
was
also
a
total
deadbeat
—
all
talk
and
no
walk
.
Stoned
a
majority
of
the
time
,
and
spending
as
much
money
in
bars
and
fine
restaurants
as
he
did
on
his
“
business
ideas
,
”
Jimmy
was
a
professional
leech
,
living
off
his
family
’
s
hard
-
won
money
by
spinning
them
as
well
as
everybody
else
in
the
city
on
false
ideas
of
future
tech
glory
.
Sure
,
sometimes
he
’
d
put
in
some
token
effort
,
or
pick
up
the
phone
and
cold
-
call
some
bigwig
and
name
-
drop
until
he
ran
out
of
names
,
but
nothing
ever
actually
happened
.
None
of
these
“
ventures
”
ever
blossomed
into
anything
.
Yet
the
guy
kept
this
up
for
years
,
living
off
girlfriends
and
more
and
more
distant
relatives
well
into
his
late
twenties
.
And
the
most
screwed
-
up
part
was
that
Jimmy
felt
good
about
it
.
He
had
a
delusional
level
of
self
-
confidence
.
People
who
laughed
at
him
or
hung
up
on
him
were
,
in
his
mind
,
“
missing
the
opportunity
of
their
lives
.
”
People
who
called
him
out
on
his
bogus
business
ideas
were
“
too
ignorant
and
inexperienced
”
to
understand
his
genius
.
People
who
pointed
out
his
deadbeat
lifestyle
were
“
jealous
”
;
they
were
“
haters
”
who
envied
his
success
.
Jimmy
did
make
some
money
,
although
it
was
usually
through
the
sketchiest
of
means
,
like
selling
another
person
’
s
business
idea
as
his
own
,
or
finagling
a
loan
from
someone
,
or
worse
,
talking
someone
into
giving
him
equity
in
their
start
-
up
.
He
actually
occasionally
talked
people
into
paying
him
to
do
some
public
speaking
.
(
About
what
,
I
can
’
t
even
imagine
.
)
The
worst
part
was
that
Jimmy
believed
his
own
bullshit
.
His
delusion
was
so
bulletproof
,
it
was
honestly
hard
to
get
mad
at
him
,
it
was
actually
kind
of
amazing
.
Sometime
in
the
1960s
,
developing
“
high
self
-
esteem
”
—
having
positive
thoughts
and
feelings
about
oneself
—
became
all
the
rage
in
psychology
.
Research
found
that
people
who
thought
highly
about
themselves
generally
performed
better
and
caused
fewer
problems
.
Many
researchers
and
policymakers
at
the
time
came
to
believe
that
raising
a
population
’
s
self
-
esteem
could
lead
to
some
tangible
social
benefits
:
lower
crime
,
better
academic
records
,
greater
employment
,
lower
budget
deficits
.
As
a
result
,
beginning
in
the
next
decade
,
the
1970s
,
self
-
esteem
practices
began
to
be
taught
to
parents
,
emphasized
by
therapists
,
politicians
,
and
teachers
,
and
instituted
into
educational
policy
.
Grade
inflation
,
for
example
,
was
implemented
to
make
low
-
achieving
kids
feel
better
about
their
lack
of
achievement
.
Participation
awards
and
bogus
trophies
were
invented
for
any
number
of
mundane
and
expected
activities
.
Kids
were
given
inane
homework
assignments
,
like
writing
down
all
the
reasons
why
they
thought
they
were
special
,
or
the
five
things
they
liked
most
about
themselves
.
Pastors
and
ministers
told
their
congregations
that
they
were
each
uniquely
special
in
God
’
s
eyes
,
and
were
destined
to
excel
and
not
be
average
.
Business
and
motivational
seminars
cropped
up
chanting
the
same
paradoxical
mantra
:
every
single
one
of
us
can
be
exceptional
and
massively
successful
.
But
it
’
s
a
generation
later
and
the
data
is
in
:
we
’
re
not
all
exceptional
.
It
turns
out
that
merely
feeling
good
about
yourself
doesn
’
t
really
mean
anything
unless
you
have
a
good
reason
to
feel
good
about
yourself
.
It
turns
out
that
adversity
and
failure
are
actually
useful
and
even
necessary
for
developing
strong
-
minded
and
successful
adults
.
