The actual interesting phenomenon here is how this pablum makes it to the frontpage. It shows how philosophically and emotionally juvenile the readership here is. It exposes HN as a frat-like atmosphere full of blowhard meatheads obsessed with trite "Top N Ways to Succeed!"

Your comment is level-headed and insightful and it's a rehash of ancient understandings regarding the value and meaning of work and life. Passion, discipline, prudence temperance justice fortitude patience charity faith and hope.

These "link-bait" discussions were stale thousands of years ago. How very simple-minded the "smart" people here are, for all their delusions of high intellectualism.

Maybe if HNers took more humanities they wouldn't be so fascinated by these shallow articles.