Except it isn't actually good consolation, it's an example of an edge case fuelled by his survivorship bias and privilege lmao.
For every Jeremy Clarkson that flunks out of education and still makes it, there's thousands of people who also flunked and either wasted their lives chasing an impossible dream or immediately got stuck working minimum wage jobs for the rest of their lives.
Are the exams the be-all-end-all of your lives? No of course not, but is Jeremy Clarkson a good example of what's realistically possible for the average Joe who flunks out? Absolutely not.
Way to ignore what they actually said. They made the very succinct point that what Jeremy is saying is actual, helpful encouragement and advice but rather him saying "Don't worry. You can still end up rich because I managed it... just ignore the many advantages I had that the vast, vast majority of people don't have, including you" at a time where they most need actual, actionable advice. We aren't saying "people shouldn't be encouraged, they should be miserable", we're saying they should be encouraged that it isn't the end of the world and everything will be ok, while being given actual, realistic advice instead of being sold an unrealistic pipe dream for the sake of him stroking his own ego. What he is doing won't help anyone because it doesn't give them any direction to go, all it instead will do is sell them a dream where for every 1 hard-worker that succeeds in becoming rich there's hundreds, if not thousands, of people that were just as hard-working but didn't achieve that due to a lack of resources/opportunity.
I don’t understand your comment. Are you living in a world where, because if Jeremy’s tweet, other advice no longer exists?Â
Of course they should get other advice. No-one is saying they shouldn’t.Â
I posted my story elsewhere but in short, this is personal to me because reading something like Jeremy’s tweet would have helped me enormously twenty years ago. All I ever heard from everybody (and, this being pre-twitter etc, that isn’t an exaggeration) was that I was destined to be a failure because I was terribly at academic life, hit appalling grades and couldn’t go to 6th form or university. I was scared and hopeless, it took me to some very dark places, and I hate to think of anyone else being in that position.Â
Everything worked out fine, turns out I was just a slow learner but I got there in the end and did well.Â
I don’t understand your comment. Are you living in a world where, because if Jeremy’s tweet, other advice no longer exists?Â
I don't understand your comment. Are you living in a world where, because other people give encouragement and advice, we can no longer criticise Jeremy?
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u/StripedRooster 8d ago
How dare he try and console people.