Society has spent a lot of time conditioning us to think of the tryers as better than the slackers. Being a tryer is a virtue. Slackers are missing the point of education; why are they even there? The tryers are going to go places, the slackers will never amount to anything.
the real competitive advantage in life is internal approval. you cannot compete with someone who is secure with who they are, what they want, and what they bring