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I'm s glad to see an article like this on HN, as opposed to articles that attribute success to massive amounts of luck.
by paulhauggis 12y ago
I'm s glad to see an article like this on HN, as opposed to articles that attribute success to massive amounts of luck.
- girvo 12y agoAs far as I've experienced, both are required.
- rayiner 12y agoMy dad has a version of this story. He was born in a village in Bangladesh and while he's not a VP at a "top 5" consulting company, he raised us upper middle class in an expensive DC suburb. He notes he was smart, but never the smartest person; hard working, but not the hardest working person; in addition to both, he was also very lucky. There's an additional dimension too. Ambition and extroversion I guess. The smartest, hardest working people I know from undergrad are engineering PhD's toiling away on the tenure track. Failure according to the author.