Impostors

[fordewind]

As I said, in spite of the potential - as always - to reference a small number of exceptions, usually well known precisely because they're exceptions, the overall, collective effect that self-proclamation has on their achieving their celebrity/stardom is typically pretty minimal. You've just mentioned one of the comparatively small number of exceptions, usually well known precisely because they're exceptions.

(I think your reasoning here is perhaps similar to that of the people who imagine that college education doesn't confer an overall financial advantage in life and in careers, and then reference Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg as supporting examples, ignoring both (a) the fact that they were both people whose initial education predicated that they had no difficulty getting into Harvard in the first place, and (b) the fact that they're so famous in that particular context partly because they're exceptions.)





I think it varies hugely, according to the then-current zeitgeist of the sphere of influence concerned.

Ofcourse the college education doesn`t confer, don`t you agree.I think it`s obvious.Self-proclamation, however is doing its job.Gates and Zuckerberg are also self-proclaimed, to a certain extent, partially stealing some other people`s works and pushing themselves into the limelight.

Even though my sample is small, my point is there are but a few, really admirable folks who need no marketing, no self - proclamation.Very few.Even Jesus was self-proclaimed.My point is that by self-proclaiming - your self-exploring.No need for the formal education at all.

 

[java]

Unless you are proclaiming yourself to be a distinguished Harvard Professor and an expert in constitutional law.

 

[murray t turtle]

Saul killed his thousands, David killed his ten thousands

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Good one, java. David was real skilled, @ big game hunting, like a lion.. ....He got 5 smooth stones, out of a brook. I read a NRA modern technical article on olympics ammo that wins; one key is the smoothness, of the barrel, another,smoothness of the bullet. Wise beyond his years