On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > I replied to this one in private, but I want to make a point in public as > well. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:24 PM Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The barrier is not with Stack Overflow. (←What I obviously meant) >> The barrier is within you. > > > There's an insidious assumption hidden in here: that "the barrier is within > you" means it's a modifiable barrier. Or, for that matter, it should be. > > For some of us, it's not. I was not overstating earlier when I made a > reference to the Nobel Prize. > And there are also those for whom it's not as modifiable as this attitude > assumes, or for whom modifying it is not the best of ideas. > > Think about this one a bit next time you want to tell someone it's "all in > their head". Because it might just be literally true. >
I absolutely knew it was literally true. I then proceeded to point out the same in my own life. I did not intend to imply that it was easy to deal with. (Note for others reading this there have been messages off list about this)
