Re:Survivorship Bias
by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:40AM
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How much of your success would you attribute to "luck"? How much to your upbringing?
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Re:Survivorship Bias
by 989throwaway66 on Friday April 21, 2017 @12:14PM
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Quite a bit. Good brain, good upbringing, good education, that's my biggest luck in life.
I got lucky with finding that opportunity that really met my skills. But I actually had been looking for one for a while, so it's half lucky. And nobody gave me money. I forced it then, and ever since, because nothing comes easy.
But I am lucky also because I don't have a very strong competition. But maybe because I am in a niche, so not fully lucky?
Sorry for being not very specific in all this...