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I’m confident there’s a way it can become encouraging.

Learning the skills (programming, design) to build an early stage web/mobile product is not hard; many many people already have done or could do that.

Equally, plenty of people can easily identify political or social problems that just need a confident and capable leader to drive reform.

The temperament/emotional side seems more innate and immutable, but only because broadly accessible ways of transforming one’s temperament are not widely known or deeply researched.

This is one of the main reasons I’ve gone so deep on the topic; beyond just the self-motivation of improving my own life, it seems like it could be quite significant if many more people in the world were able to overcome their inner obstacles and achieve better outcomes in whatever they were seeking to do.




Temperament definitely changes with age at least, the timescale for personality shifts is just so long that it’s difficult to manufacture or steer them.




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