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Re:How Not to Explain Success by LionessLover on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:12PM (#11799355)
The "luck" argument isn't about comparing an idle slob with a hard-working person. It's about different outcomes for equally hard-working people due to luck - such as the luck of birth. Which is not just about parents, but about ones entire environment. How many little Einsteins where born in Ghana and nobody ever noticed?
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Re:How Not to Explain Success by WalterBright on Sunday May 29, 2016 @11:17PM (#11799370)
It is NOT about how hard you work. It is about how smart you work - i.e. your choices on what to work on.

Working hard on non-productive things is not going to get one anywhere. Everybody has choices on what to work on. Working hard waiting tables is not going to help create a hit album - working hard on guitar skills might.

To be successful, you have to have a plan that makes sense, then work that plan, not something else.

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Re:How Not to Explain Success by ktRolster on Monday May 30, 2016 @01:58AM (#11799809)
"Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."
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