Re:“”Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Entrepren...
by layer8 on Saturday March 04, 2023 @05:24PM
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The tweet is a hyperbole, but it points at the important role of luck and survivorship bias.
It is clear that given the dimensions of skill and luck, the most success will come from having both. If you lack either skill or luck, you will automatically be at a disadvantage compared to those who have both. This implies that the most prominent success stories are the result of luck as much as of anything else, however that isn’t very often mentioned in those stories.
It is clear that given the dimensions of skill and luck, the most success will come from having both. If you lack either skill or luck, you will automatically be at a disadvantage compared to those who have both. This implies that the most prominent success stories are the result of luck as much as of anything else, however that isn’t very often mentioned in those stories.