My approach to any meetings of new individuals is that I give them a blank slate. When I say "blank slate", I really mean it. There is nothing there at all to begin with. Even if I've read or heard things about them, when the actual face-to-face discussion happens for the first time, I'm gauging them in every category starting completly fresh. I have a track record over 20 years long of getting these assessments correct and even if I'm off on a few unimportant details, the overall picture will be spot-on.

I have made a career out of helping others and made millions doing it. The number of people who call me their mentor is in the thousands. Its through this lens of actually achieving personal success, having branched out and become an expert-level professional in multiple fields, and watching how what I teach affects my mentees/students that I formed this philosophy towards life.

I don't make things impossible, but I make it so impossible that only the top 10% will make it through. A certificate from me means you proved in live scenarios a superiority to over 90% of humans in the field of study selected. I don't lower the bar and I don't make exceptions.

You're not getting the concept of a meritocracy correct when you state things like:

"What if someone doesn’t make the first move to help another person and neither do you. For example witnessing an accident when no one else is around, do you drive on or do you call the EMS, even though they haven’t done anything to merit your help."

That statement right there isn't a meritocracy. Not even close. This whole scenario would belong in the realm of "common decency towards a living thing".

What meritocracy means is positions of wealth and power are given to those that have a proven track history of dedicating their lives to the pursuit of the highest ideals of that industry. CEOs, World Leader positions, etc are examples of what should be based on merit.

If a person wants an accolade or award given only to the best, the standard should not be lowered so its easier for more individuals to pass. This is what has actually been happening in almost every industry in the name of "inclusion". Specifically, for women. Its been conclusively proven that everything is in decline after these standards fell and they're continuing to fall. Feminists call it "redefining", but its just making everything easier so inferior beings get prestigious and powerful positions who clearly aren't qualified and don't deserve it. The same can be said for people born into endless wealth because of the family they were born into. They would be subject to the exact same qualifying criteria that the rest of us have to follow. Ideally, this would prevent the promotion of unworthy individuals to any positions of wealth or power.

Now, these are just my opinions on how things should be run. I have an extraordinarily unique situation that started my life and shaped everything so I realize why I'm so different than 97% of humanity at the very least.

That difference was nothing but hardship if you look at my biography on paper compared to majority of peoples' life stories. Its probably why my approaches to education, self-improvement, etc led me to excel so highly above my peers and to 9 academic and intellectual world-level competitive titles (before any dropping of standards) and 2 world martial arts champion titles (in the old no-rules era no less) along with countless national champion and state/regional champion titles for every intellectual subject that exists and 6 different sports including football, soccer, and swimming. This exact ratio and dynamic also exists for wealth distribution and is something you must believe and follow if you ever want to be a wealthy individual.

From up at that level in any 1 of those categories, the competition all understands a certain base level of proficiency that they all had to attain just to stand there. Champions have a completly different attitude and a very different outlook on life than the average person. Its quite literally what makes them better than everyone else. What's interesting to me as a multiple world/international champion of so many things is I noticed that philosophy and way of thinking are applicable and get results in every field. If you master the art of mastering skills, learning material, and mastering implementation of said skills and material properly, you can quite literally find yourself at the top 3% of any competitive scene.

There's a reason there is absolutely no diversity of philosophies at the top of any respectable field. There's only 1 way to think and act if you want to be a champion of anything and that's accepting ridiculous hardship over long periods of training/conditioning time in exchange for that championship.

There's nothing inherently wrong with not wanting to pursue things to that extreme degree of proficiency, but its definitely not a way I can live my life. If I'm going to spend significant time from my life on it, you better believe I'll hit the ground running with everything I am capable of.