[Thrownaway]

The point of the post was to demonstrate that "most" is a weasel word. Helpfully, it also cuts both ways.

As reflexive, defensive replies helpfully demonstrate, your natural reaction was to immediately divorce yourself from the "most" others in the above statement -- those who follow the same path (pursuing traditional, well-worn examples of 'proper' routes to success, i.e. the college degree).

What you missed is that the statement was not a personal attack. The fact that you, in particular, happened to live abroad at some point simply has no relevance regarding the probabilities of the "most" in your group, and that was the point: you're inconsequential to "most." The inverse also applies, and that's the position that my people choose to operate from.

The irony is that you personally don't want to be like most people, yet for others, you write a recipe to follow that inevitably predisposes itself to pedestrian mostness. You're counseling living by the example of others, while you yourself have abandoned that ladder to take a flying leap towards individuality.

Habits are powerful things. Good luck.