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Apr 9, 2020 · Best-selling business books promise to teach you the winning formula and reveal the secrets of success. But the inconvenient truth is that exceptional successes in business are largely based on luck.
May 15, 2018 · In fact, I’ve believed for years that luck is a better determinant of success than smarts (or effort). ... I couldn’t avoid the conclusion that luck was a — if not the — key determinant of ...
- Paul Solman
Apr 13, 2016 · Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell University. He is the author of Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy and Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to ...
Jan 2, 2018 · If you’re looking for success (as most of us are), then what you need first and foremost is the right attitude. There are no guarantees, but what most people call good luck is the ability to ...
- David Kleinhandler
Oct 18, 2023 · 8. In the vast landscape of success, there’s a hidden factor that often goes unnoticed: luck. While hard work, determination, and skill undeniably play pivotal roles, the influence of ...
Apr 2, 2018 · Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Baseball player Lefty Gomez famously said that he'd rather be lucky than good, yet as a society we still tend to downplay the role luck plays in success, instead ...
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Jan 5, 2023 · The suggestion is that attributions of success can be skewed by an awareness of an individual’s gender, such that a man’s success is normatively attributed to ability without regard to indices of luck, whereas the success of a woman is normatively derogated through dominant attributions of luck (e.g., Deaux and Emswiller, 1974; Etaugh and Brown, 1975; Feather, 1975).
