Attitudes like yours smack of the smugness and arrogance that I've had to deal with all of my life
Take a breath, my friend. I'm not the person who's been keeping you down all these years that you are apparently lashing out at.
I responded to your other comment down-thread. My comment was aimed at a normal demographic. You state that you have some undiagnosed mental handicap.
If I posted a comment saying how I was able to increase my vertical leap by 10% through almost no effort and I think anybody can do it, should people in wheelchairs respond with self-righteous anger as you have? I would hope they would read it for what it is; a call to believe in yourself to reach your best potential. People have different potentials - I would think that was self-evident.
If this page is anything worthwhile (and cross-referencing it with wikipedia, it just seems out-of-date) http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/ you clearly aren't in the normal demographic considering the few people who made it on that list.
15 minutes to memorize 100 digits of Pi should get you higher on that list if you dedicate some time to it ?
I'm sorry about your memory problem, but I think you're being a little sensitive. OP's point was simple: if you believe in yourself, you'll be in a better position to succeed. No, this doesn't guarantee success. But it's better than not believing you can. You're correct, your crippled grandma won't be able to walk because she believes she can. Unfortunately that wasn't OP's point.
I know I'm going to sound crazy, but sometimes I really wonder if "mind over matter" can make things that we've been made to believe impossible, is actually possible. Like, what if we could willpower ourselves out of a disability that even medical-science claims is impossible. Maybe we all just have to believe "there is no spoon".
I'll admit that from time to time I try to move small objects by focusing on them. Maybe I watch too much anime...
The point was anyone can improve themselves by believing they can. Anyone can do that. While your nitpick is technically true, it serves little purpose besides inflating your under compensated ego. This seems to be a recurring theme on HN, where people point out irrelevant nitpicks as if I couldn't do that myself.
Here's the lesson: if you have a point to make, please don't fit in extraneous claims, which are much debated themselves, into your argument or comment. It's not hard to see that they can be confused as being part of your point.
> This seems to be a recurring theme on HN, where people point out irrelevant nitpicks as if I couldn't do that myself.
I will say this again: there is nothing wrong with nitpicking. If you can't be technically correct, then you're not correct.
