He's just repeating a bunch of woo woo self help books, calling other people losers for being members of reality, and taking credit for what his family gave him outright.
> I was born in a village in China. My parents were the children of rural farmers who grew up during the Cultural Revolution. They were the first generation of their family to read and write, and also the first generation to leave the village.
> Growing up, I had always been interested in art and science. In high school, I went to a public art school and studied digital animation and design for 4 years. Then, in college, I went to Waterloo to study mathematical physics.
To me, it sounds like he was an ordinary 1.5 generation immigrant from a poor background, who happened to have some talent and very good luck (e.g. being an early hire at Facebook).
Not sure where you get this from.
I came to Canada in 1999 and my parents worked at a best buy and a mattress store for 10 years. And we rented someone's basement for the first 6 years. I moved out of my parents when I was 17, I paid for my college tuition myself through tech internships. After graduating college I had saved about ~1000$ and moved to SF to work my tech job.
I asked for my first pay cheque in advanced before I flew to the US so I could pay the deposit.
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Its weird you say "members of reality" when you yourself are critiquing a phantom character in your own mind. Not sure where you are in life, but the older I get, the more I realize the woo woo self help its just the lies we tell yourselves to keep moving forward. Cause the absent of that work is even harder.
I've been thinking about what you said, and I believe it has helped me gain some clarity about myself. I have written a response specifically for you, and I hope that as someone who is in touch with reality, you can sense the sincerity in my words.
https://jxnl.github.io/blog/writing/2024/01/09/self-loathing...