I came across this article and its opening line in MIT Technology Review:
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms.
MIT Technology Review
I said something similar in a blog post 18 months ago, What if 99% of success is luck? And given the craziness of WeWork in the news, this idea that success is due more to luck than anything else seems truer than ever.
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Talent vs. Luck: The Role of Randomness in Success and Failure, arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068