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Good lord. There's gotta be some logical fallacy named after this. Yes, all these things happened by some fortunate cosmic happenstance. But that is true for e
by ziffusion 14y ago
Good lord. There's gotta be some logical fallacy named after this.
Yes, all these things happened by some fortunate cosmic happenstance. But that is true for everything. Take away a few key pieces from a flow in history, and the flow might not have taken place at all.
The point is that, statistically, such fortunate confluences happen all the time. Only a few produce a flow that blazes a trail. And it does have a lot to do with the characteristics of the people who find themselves at the cusp of it.
Could someone else have been as successful as Steve had these early things happened to them? Maybe, maybe not.
Could someone else have been as successful as Steve had some other set of fortunate events come together? Maybe, maybe not.
It is silly to take away from a person, and attribute it all to luck.
- jacques_chester 14y ago> It is silly to take away from a person, and attribute it all to luck. And where, exactly, did I do that?