Self Awareness and the Luck-Skill Gap
“Training by way of tragedy. When things are going up you tend to correlate it with talent, when things are going down you tend to correlate it with luck.” – Chris Sacca
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Don’t dismiss your success, it will always be an unexpected combo of luck and hard work
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They see someone else achieving great things and think those achievers must have something special—something they don’t have. Or, they blame luck—thinking life’s winners must have had all the lucky breaks. But the truth is, a lucky streak will only get you so far.