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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 268683" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>I too am a bit upset about this Millennial stuff. I can remember how I was at 19. If I had thought I could get a better opportunity, I'd go for it. Indeed, I'm like that today, as I suspect most of the people here are.</p><p></p><p>I think all this "entitlement" and "I got where I am because I worked hard" business is an example of the Halo Effect*; i.e. it attributes success to individual talent or effort. No doubt all those who are successful do have talent and do put in the necessary effort, but - and here's the rub - so does almost everyone else. Those who don't succeed usually work just as hard and often have really good ideas too (remember the Betamax?), but other factors that they usually have absolutely no control over doom their efforts. Examples of this are so universal that I don't really think I need to enumerate them.</p><p></p><p>So how does this reflect on the transfers? They are trying to improve their playing futures. That might work and it might not, but I don't think it has anything much to do with either their attitudes or their work ethic. It has to do with things they had no control over that affected their playing futures. How could anyone know that Mills would turn out to be more what we are looking for at BB? I thought he was a good prospect, but that's about it; I thought that either C. J. Leggett or MM would get the job. If things don't work out as predicted, you'd be a fool to stick around and watch your future fade out of "loyalty" or something like that. That's why I don't bear these young men any malice at all. This is a country built on personal choices to improve yourself. They took one. Good luck to both.</p><p></p><p>* This business about the Halo Effect and much else in this post is from Duncan Watt's <em>Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us</em>, a book everyone in the country should be required to read. Right. Now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 268683, member: 265"] I too am a bit upset about this Millennial stuff. I can remember how I was at 19. If I had thought I could get a better opportunity, I'd go for it. Indeed, I'm like that today, as I suspect most of the people here are. I think all this "entitlement" and "I got where I am because I worked hard" business is an example of the Halo Effect*; i.e. it attributes success to individual talent or effort. No doubt all those who are successful do have talent and do put in the necessary effort, but - and here's the rub - so does almost everyone else. Those who don't succeed usually work just as hard and often have really good ideas too (remember the Betamax?), but other factors that they usually have absolutely no control over doom their efforts. Examples of this are so universal that I don't really think I need to enumerate them. So how does this reflect on the transfers? They are trying to improve their playing futures. That might work and it might not, but I don't think it has anything much to do with either their attitudes or their work ethic. It has to do with things they had no control over that affected their playing futures. How could anyone know that Mills would turn out to be more what we are looking for at BB? I thought he was a good prospect, but that's about it; I thought that either C. J. Leggett or MM would get the job. If things don't work out as predicted, you'd be a fool to stick around and watch your future fade out of "loyalty" or something like that. That's why I don't bear these young men any malice at all. This is a country built on personal choices to improve yourself. They took one. Good luck to both. * This business about the Halo Effect and much else in this post is from Duncan Watt's [I]Everything is Obvious Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us[/I], a book everyone in the country should be required to read. Right. Now. [/QUOTE]
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