>>This article makes a point I've made here more than once and it has evidence to back it up:
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>>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/why-luck-matters-more-than-you-might-think/476394/
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>>Tamar
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>It's definitely on the money.
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>I've seen many people fired from jobs, only to land in other jobs that allowed them to flourish.
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>Perhaps the most extreme example is Michael Bloomberg, who was fired from Salomon Brothers for rattling the wrong political cages.
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>It devastated him at first but the rest is history, isn't it?
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>There's another element at work here, though.
>We're definitely lucky when a door suddenly opens for us with no prior activity on our part.
>However- not everyone chooses to walk through that door and that makes all the difference, doesn't it?

Why does one walk through and another not?