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It hurts the ego to admit one’s personal success is due to luck and not by effort.
by arvinsim 6y ago
It hurts the ego to admit one’s personal success is due to luck and not by effort.
- pdimitar 6y agoYep, more or less. There's also this phenomena (that I have no doubt has a name in Wikipedia but I don't know it) that leads to our brain conflating "I made it! I made money!" with "I am super good at EVERYTHING!". I don't why that is. A lot of us know that the ego is our brain's top priority but nobody really knows why is that the case. This also leads to rich people producing various misguided essays in which they are asserting stuff that's way outside their area of expertise -- but since they are rich and popular, many people gulp them as a holy gospel and repeat them ad infinitum... Eventually we go full circle and start seeing what is the topic of the OP: that there are a lot of widely believed adages without them ever being well-supported by any evidence.