CmdrMercutio: If you define achievement as the search for your own measure of satisfaction, surely any proud underachiever has achieved their desire and therefore isnt an underachiever?
If you define it as that, then yes. And what is good for the individual is not necessarily, or very often, good for a prosperous civilisation.
It's no good just to be proud of yourself, you have to achieve things worthy of being proud of. And what's to be proud of includes what the rest of the Human race thinks. Although Adolf Hiler and Bart Simpson would beg to differ.
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If you define it as that, then yes. And what is good for the individual is not necessarily, or very often, good for a prosperous civilisation.
It's no good just to be proud of yourself, you have to achieve things worthy of being proud of. And what's to be proud of includes what the rest of the Human race thinks. Although Adolf Hiler and Bart Simpson would beg to differ.