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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown

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257 points delaugust | 1 comments | 24 Apr 25 21:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[24 Apr 25 22:48 UTC] No.43788359[source]▶
I think that greatness of mind needs to be coupled with ambition, a certain level of arrogance and self-absorbtion, and a personality that doesn't make you a pariah.

I suspect that combinations like that, are, indeed, as rare as hen's teeth.

Many great talents probably couldn't be arsed to play the rat race game, and keep their domain humble, or they piss off other people so much, that they never get a break.

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handfuloflight ◴[24 Apr 25 23:32 UTC] No.43788657[source]▶
Why does it have to be arrogance and self absorption? Why not simply confidence and vision?
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1. vjvjvjvjghv ◴[25 Apr 25 02:38 UTC] No.43789623[source]▶
There is a very fine line between all of these. When you look at famous people like Jobs, Zuckerberg, Musk or Gates they have all these attributes. Another example would be Michael Jordan in basketball or Michael Schumacher in racing.