you're right, the universe has deemed you and me to not be as extraordinarily lucky as trump. i get that our primal belief in our own agency creates strong cog

you're right, the universe has deemed you and me to not be as extraordinarily lucky as trump. i get that our primal belief in our own agency creates strong cognitive dissonance against the centrality of chance in our lives. it's almost as if evolutionarily, it doesn't matter to our egos that we often get the causality exactly backwards. esteem rises either way, even under false premises.