>>>>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?
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>>Why does one walk through and another not?
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>Good question.
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>In my lifetime, I saw it play out with the GI Bill. Some, like me, took advantage of it while most did not.
>For me that was caused by a lucky break. I happened to run into someone at the VA who told me the details- before that it was a mystery- and when I heard them, I made the decision on the spot to take advantage of it.
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>Still, even then.. I might not have done anything about it.
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>So what prompted me to do it?
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>I personally think that luck plays a part there as well.
>It might be genetic luck- you're just built that way- or it might be something as simple as one person having a headache that day and another not having one.
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>Warren Buffet, the most astute businessman of my lifetime, calls himself "an ovarian accident."
>That's probably as good an analysis as any.

Good answer.