Is he right?

is he right?

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No, it'd be more accurate if they said successful people flipped the coin 10x, where as some only flip it once and accept the fate.

No

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"No"
-Me, just now.

you're conflating the existence of good coin flippers with people who used their coin flips to benefit the survival and well-being of the tribe and not just their home theator

Worshiping and fawning over your superiors is one thing. Creating an entire cult of personality, displaying arduous zeal towards the person in question and thereby forever immortalizing said person through the pages of history is not on the account of mere survivorship.

he doesn't even know what heroism is

There is some truth in that, but the analogy fails to account for those skilled in manipulating coin flips for desired outcomes and that not all coins are fair.

obviously, we are all subject to some larger systems of predetermination, but to just figure that's that and give up is pretty bunk

we can strive for a better world but not if nobody has any fight in them.

It sounds like a cliche, but the only thing you should strive to beat is yourself. Worshiping successful people is silly, but you can learn a lot from them. That guy is a tool.
I suppose you need to have a certain mindset to be willing to improve, you need to have at least some masochistic traits to relentlessly hurt and punish yourself on a daily basis chasing a goal. For a lot of people it's enough to tell themselves "it's not me who is weak, it's the strong who had the opportunity".
Will you fight or will you perish like a dog?