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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading about Olympian Kristen Faulkner, who went to Philips Exeter, than Harvard for CS major and competing in crew etc. then of course the Olympics, and all that entails.

I was curious about how she achieved so much, and if you read up on her family history, they ALL went to Philips and Harvard, going back to 1842. Her N-grandfather started a mill, and his sons went to Harvard and ran banks, and real estate development. It goes on for generation to generation.

https://keenenh.gov/sites/default/files/bioAH.pdf

I have hopes for my kids to do well in life, but we are barely middle class and my grandfather couldn’t read, and this is their competition. Oh and AI. [/quote]

Wrong, You’re not in that game OP. You’re not even on the playing field. What you need to create is the first generation of the 1842 great grandfather, in your own lineage. Middle class beliefs = middle class actions and behaviors. The first in your family to believe and achieve differently is the game changer for your family. [/quote]

I think this is a really smart comment.  On one side of my family are people happy and content in a middle class world that they know and love -- no one wants more in part because it is all they know, in part because they feel comfortable, in part because they have doubts about how good they actually are.  On the other side going back generations from the first to come to the US, the mindset has been to build better, advance, improve.  So poor immigrant to lower middle class to middle class to upper middle class to rich.  That took generations and it is 150 plus years in the making.  The contrast could not be more stark.  [/quote]

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