“I want my effort to produce your results.”

It seems silly to say it outright. But when we look around with any degree of “I wish I had what they have” — this is what we’re saying.

To say instead, “I want to mimic your efforts to see if I can attain your results,” is so sensible as to be boring. Indeed, it’s quite a reasonable approach.

True, people are born into different circumstances and luck has no sense of fairness or equality …

Nonetheless, we can’t weigh the outputs without consideration of the inputs. And so many of those inputs are what we can control.