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Re:Dirty Little Secret of Success by fauigerzigerk on Friday October 23, 2009 @04:11AM (#898442)
Looking at the deluge of success related postings on HN, I wonder if the dirtiest secret of them all may be that success is 95% chance and 5% things that are too heterogenous to classify, even for those who experienced them.
Re:Dirty Little Secret of Success by fnid on Friday October 23, 2009 @10:51AM (#898842)
Sounds like the TED talk from Alain de Botton where he talks about the old days when we saw a homeless person on the street and considered them among the "less fortunate."

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_g...