I call it "doing the same thing over and over again, hoping someday you get lucky." I think there's a commonly-used expression for that behavior. Hinton got lu

I call it "doing the same thing over and over again, hoping someday you get lucky." I think there's a commonly-used expression for that behavior. Hinton got lucky: something he had nothing to do with changed, making him look like a stoic hero. A winning strategy or just a lazy path?