Screenshot of a LinkedIn post.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.

How did I do it?

(The rest of the long post is blacked out until almost the end, then continues)

CEO (my dad)

(A bit more blacked out text follows, then ends with)

promoted me to SVP.

There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
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[–] 39 points 8 months ago (6 children)

While this is most likely rage bait this isn't far from human self perception.

There were multiple studies on this with similar setups. Eg they'd have students play monopoly and give one of them significantly more cash to start with. Not secretly either. One would think this student would understand that this is an insane advantage but the study found that most of the participants believed that they won by playing well.

So even with the most obvious advantage humans will think that it was their own merit that lead to their success.

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