"If he/she can do it, you can too!!!"

No, there's no guarantee you can achieve what someone else accomplished. Everyone has different abilities/talents, intelligence, circumstances, opportunities, etc.

Let's say you have a friend who graduated with a computer science degree and is now a big shot programmer making well over 6 figures. If you have a below average iq and aren't very tech savvy, you are just setting yourself up for failure.

This is probably my least favorite platitude that people tell each other, and it always pissed me off when someone told me this because I know they are full of shit and they just say this for a self morale boost. Are people really this stupid to believe anyone can do what some other person can do? Fucking ridiculous.