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Successful people attribute almost everything to their own intelligence, willpower or hard work to feel better about themselves. Luck is extremely important for
by jaredmck 15y ago
Successful people attribute almost everything to their own intelligence, willpower or hard work to feel better about themselves. Luck is extremely important for any individual trial - once you get up to a large sample size, sure, your traits will win out - but many people will never reach such a sample size in their entire life.
When I see "fail fast", what I really think is: "increase your sample size".
- timwiseman 15y agoThis does not match my experience. While certainly some successful people like to take all the credit, most of the successful ones I know acknowledge either luck, fortune, or God's blessing played a huge roll in their success. Machievelli in particular talked about it at length in the Prince and other works. But you can't directly control luck. You can directly influence the other factors, and while luck does play an important role, so do other factors. To borrow a quote, "The harder I work, the luckier I get."
- rhizome 15y agoThat is the Fundamental Attribution Error, that success derives from the person more than it does from circumstances.