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Originally Posted by fjtorres
At the risk of getting dragged into the crossfire, a bibliographical note:
Malcolm Gladwell's OUTLIERS predicates that success is due primarilly to blind luck. Talent is *not* the determining factor, just luck and stubborness.
Quite popular, that book.
Especially with the Terry Malloys of the world.
Anyway, resume the artillery barrages...  |
I will go along with stubbornness as that can translate as determination. Few attain any sort of success without a degree of determination. Take ambition, add determination - stubbornness if you will - and you are on the path to success. Luck has some influence on all our lives, but I will not agree that it is a primary element in human success. I have had luck, both good and bad, but if I was to allow luck more latitude in what has determined my own life, I would suggest that a lack of bad luck is a bigger factor than simply having good luck.