"Smartest Stanford/Harvard/MIT kids have losers mindset" — Waterloo praised as counterexample
ericwdolan · x · 2026-11-11
A post complained that the smartest 18-23 year olds at Stanford, Harvard and MIT have a "losers mindset": discuss any idea with them and they'll default to explaining in detail why it might not work, instead of figuring out how to make it work. In response, someone argued there's one place where people keep asking "what if this works?" — Waterloo, Canada. The exchange sparked debate over whether elite-school culture suppresses the builder mindset.
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