Comments on: The Situation of Success http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-situation-of-success/ Wed, 22 May 2013 05:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Weekly Wisdom Roundup #180 | The Weekly Roundup http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-situation-of-success/#comment-58491 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:47:45 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=18325#comment-58491 [...] The Situation of Success – via thesituationist.wordpress.com – He’s right about that last point; it is easy to forget. It’s also convenient, Lewis told Jeffrey Brown in a follow-up interview on PBS’ NewsHour. Most people would acknowledge that both luck and merit are important ingredients to success. It’s just that people often like to feel like they are the authors of their accomplishments and ignore everything and everyone else who played a role. “As they age, and succeed,” Lewis told the graduates, “people feel their success was somehow inevitable.” [...]

]]> By: Weekly Roundup 180: A Curated Linkfest For The Smartest People On The Web! | SimoleonSense http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-situation-of-success/#comment-58226 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:57:52 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=18325#comment-58226 [...] The Situation of Success – via thesituationist.wordpress.com – He’s right about that last point; it is easy to forget. It’s also convenient, Lewis told Jeffrey Brown in a follow-up interview on PBS’ NewsHour. Most people would acknowledge that both luck and merit are important ingredients to success. It’s just that people often like to feel like they are the authors of their accomplishments and ignore everything and everyone else who played a role. “As they age, and succeed,” Lewis told the graduates, “people feel their success was somehow inevitable.” [...]

]]> By: Alexander Berger http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-situation-of-success/#comment-32214 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:43:06 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=18325#comment-32214 Nice article. I have been thinking about luck and how it factors into success quite a bit recently. If I look back at my own life, I can see so many random little things that greatly improved outcomes for me, and there are probably many more little events that I failed to capitalize on, resulting in lost potential. The paths we chose to pursue seem to have somewhat random outcomes.

I just wrote a review on Michael’s book The Big Short (http://alexanderberger.me/post/28216200083/the-big-short) and I think I may need to read/review some of his other books as he seems to have some great insights into life.

]]> By: Shouldland http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/the-situation-of-success/#comment-31697 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:27:32 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=18325#comment-31697 Spot on. Often in life financially security has little to do with hard work. Our society is increasingly differentiating between the haves and the have-nots, and this has little to do with hard work. Other factors, most notably the family and socio-economic class that you are born in to, have much more of an impact on your potential financial situation than hard work.

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