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You can do everything right, work very hard, and still fail. You can do everything wrong, be a complete idiot, and still succeed. There's ways you can increase
by astrodust 8y ago
You can do everything right, work very hard, and still fail. You can do everything wrong, be a complete idiot, and still succeed.
There's ways you can increase your luck, or be more observant as to opportunities, but it's self-deluding if you don't think luck plays a huge factor in success.
- weberc2 8y agoIt plays a huge factor in the specific degree of success, but a much smaller factor in whether or not you are successful at all. If you do everything right and fail, you are an anomaly pretty much by definition.
- astrodust 8y agoYou do realize there's arguably at least two billion people who through no fault of their own will never, ever succeed, no matter how hard they try? You're born in the middle of Tibet as a persecuted ethnic minority. You're on a tiny island nation with no economic future. You're from a part of Africa that's seen nothing but civil war interspersed with famine. You can do everything right but the deck is so stacked against you there's no winning move.
- weberc2 8y agoI don't care to generalize the principle outside of the western world. A valid generalization probably exists, but the terms are already so abstract that I doubt it's possible to have a meaningful conversation. Yes, there are a vanishingly tiny fraction of people in the western world who will do everything right and still fail, and a similar fraction who will do everything wrong and still succeed; however, they're the exceptions that prove the rule.