There's many better ways to explain the role of luck in success, but I felt the way he mentions that was an add-on to his whole message of "don't bother." Compe

There's many better ways to explain the role of luck in success, but I felt the way he mentions that was an add-on to his whole message of "don't bother." Competing with yourself improves you, not your positioning in the real world. When you improve yourself and the real world is more bountiful, that's a minor side effect purely based on your context and environment. In the whole article, he doesn't bring up examples of others to make his point. His only source in this is himself from his point of view.