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>If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can. This is a terrible mindset to have.
by NeoBasilisk 8y ago
>If he could do it in the situation he grew up in, anyone can.
This is a terrible mindset to have.
- Cpoll 8y ago"If I can win the lottery, anyone can" indeed. Does that technically fall under survivorship bias? (Which isn't to say that Chan _just_ got lucky, just that it's a combination of luck, skill, upbringing, disposition, opportunity...)
- grecy 8y agoYou forgot the three most important things, which are 10,000 times more important than the ones you listed. Hard work, hard work and hard work.
- sirmarksalot 8y agoNecessary but not sufficient.
- kkarakk 8y agowhat about jackie chan's life story screams luck and people handing him things coz he was handsome to you? literally all he did was hard work
- MagnumOpus 8y agoThe part that screams luck is that for every hard working Jackie Chan there are ten -- or more likely a hundred -- people just as talented and working just as hard, who didn't become multimillionaire A-list celebrities. Which is why the parent poster said hard work is necessary but not sufficient.
- isoskeles 8y agoIt's not as if the converse here is, "If a person doesn't succeed, then they did not deserve it." Is that the reason you have a problem with this mindset? I think of most alternatives as being fatalist / victim mentality, where you think you're an object that the universe does things to. What mindset do you propose people have when they want to achieve something exceptionally difficult?