Exactly. My point is that “succeeded a second time” isn’t a question of skill, it’s a question of societal status assignment mechanisms and the value we place on status. It’s true, I can’t claim any given individual can actually turn off the parts of their mind that care about status, but some people do happen to care less about that, and do go on to have multiple successes. Those kinds of figures tend to be somewhat polarizing personalities, but after the second time there is less resistance to the third. People expect it more of them.
Exactly. My point is that “succeeded a second time” isn’t a question of skill, it’s a question of societal status assignment mechanisms and the value we place on status. It’s true, I can’t claim any given individual can actually turn off the parts of their mind that care about status, but some people do happen to care less about that, and do go on to have multiple successes. Those kinds of figures tend to be somewhat polarizing personalities, but after the second time there is less resistance to the third. People expect it more of them.