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I too was imprisoned for a time and had great difficulty proving my innocence. “Now that's what you call bad luck,” said Pitcher, who had lit a second cigar and ordered for you, of course; you are brilliantly gifted; you will be the pride of your country. But to communicate with other planets, you need at least a billion or two.
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In these and many other ways do chance and contingency shape how lives turn out. The non-genetic components of aptitude, scrupulousness, and ambition matter too, of course, but most of those environmental and cultural variables were provided by others or circumstances not of your making. If genes and environment are everything or nearly so , then why do so many people with good genes and lugubrious environments fail or at least fail to succeed, if only living mediocre lives? We cannot simply employ the hindsight bias by taking only successful people and looking to see what they did to become successful, and then back-engineer those traits, package them into a program or self-help book!
Want to be the next Steve Jobs and create the next Apple Computers? How many people have followed the Jobs model and failed?
Who knows? No one writes books about them. For garage-dwelling entrepreneurs to crack the 1 percent wealth threshold in America, their path almost always involves raising venture capital and then getting their startup to an Initial Public Offering IPO or a large acquisition by another company. If their garage is situated in Silicon Valley they might get to pitch as many as 15 VCs, but VCs hear pitches for every one we fund, so perhaps 1 in 13 startups get VC, and still they face long odds from there. According to figures that the National Venture Capital Association diligently collects through primary research and publishes on their web site, last year was somewhat typical in that 1, startups got funded but only 13 percent as many achieved an IPO 81 last year or an acquisition large enough to warrant a public disclosure of the price 95 last year.
So for every wealthy startup founder, there are other entrepreneurs who end up with only a cluttered garage. Consider the plethora of business books readily available in airport bookstalls that feature the most successful companies. In the book Good to Great over four million copies sold , for example, the author Jim Collins culled 11 companies out of 1, whose stock beat the market average over a year time span, and then searched for shared characteristics among them that he believed accounted for their success.
Instead, as the Pomona College economist Gary Smith explained in his book, Standard Deviations Overlook , Collins should have started with a list of companies at the beginning of the test period, then employ a set of criteria to predict which 11 companies should do better than average. Since then, of the 35 companies with publicly traded stocks, 20 have done worse than the market average.
There are, as well, additional factors that determine life outcomes over and above genes, environment, and chance.
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Here I must briefly engage with the contentious issue of free will and determinism, and consider the role of volition in any evaluation of life outcomes. In brief, I believe I have worked out how one can accept the fact that we live in a determined universe without that assumption precluding us from making volitional choices and thus retaining personal responsibility and moral accountability for our actions.
Underlying these four factors is a fifth, deeper layer of self-awareness , and awareness of the influencing factors that shape how your life turns out. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses and selecting paths more likely to result in the desired effect, you can become aware of the internal and external influencing variables on your life, and self-aware of how you respond to them, and then make adjustments accordingly, however restrictive the degrees of freedom may be. In the end, if the cosmic dice rolled in your favor, how should you feel?
Cultivate gratitude. Follow him on Twitter michaelshermer. Wesleyan University. New York: Vintage Books, New York: Overlook Press. Pingback: Dumb Pride — Urinal Monologues. Many talented and thoughtful people pursue their work and life — and measure their self-esteem — in line with goals and values that are very different from those focused on wealth and celebrity. The lives of the rich and famous are sometimes miserable in the extreme. This last consideration is important. Progress can be good, but it can also have adverse side effects. Were Hitler and Trump and Kim successful for reaching the top job in their respective countries?
But he was saying that, by and large, the people who reap the biggest rewards tend to be risk takers. I used to have a friend who made more money than me just out of college. I lived at home with my parents to pay off loans and save up as much as possible while he had to pay rent.
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He was making more money than me that he should still have had more money left over than what his rent cost when compared to my own financial situation. He seems to have spent it all and whenever we talked he seemed to convey a sense that he was facing money problems. He used it as an excuse to not hang out or to say why his life was so miserable outside of work. I lived a simple yet content life throughout college to try and avoid as much debt as possible and worked part time while in college.
Growing up in the great recession was not the most fun but thankfully I graduated more recently that the economy had recovered a lot. My friend is still struggling along and after recent conversations has revealed his jealousy. I tried to help him as much as I could and even helped him with his work a few times. I have no idea where it goes or what he is spending it on.
Each month I can find I have internal contentment though and I see he has what seems like a hole in his life. He works as an engineer as well but just for a better paying position. He knew my parents and secretly told them how he felt they were enabling me and coddling me too much by allowing me to live rent free and seemingly without consequences. I can still find happiness in the smallest of activities. My former friend seems to have ostracized himself from his local community. I thought he was a good person and still hope he can change to become a good and happy person but I cannot put myself in a position to be burned again.
He still lives what I would see as a good life and has made strides in a better direction by losing weight and maintaining a good job. Desire and excessive comparisons seems to be what made him unhappy.
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I hope he finds what truly makes him happy as I will never be a part of his life again. Happiness is overrated. Wonder if Shermer thinks Robin Williams was a success or not? Was he happy or not? Similarly, the college you are accepted to is very much a function of which ones you chose to apply to, and what your qualifications are like. Depending on the school system, the same may also apply to earlier schooling.
It is true that we are all born on the same planet. The conditions on that planet, however, are very much dependable on the location one finds himself. And if it is not that, what else is it than random chance? Similarly, with regards to college acceptance, there are so many factors out of your own hands. Although it is obvious that you have more influence on getting into the college of your choice than on which sperm cell wins the race and fertilizes the egg that ultimately grows into the person you are now, there is still so much that is not in your own hands.
Thousands of high school kids apply for the same colleges every year. Most of them are more then qualified. To me those two statements do not sound similar at all. It is therefore nonsense to say we were lucky not to have been born on Pluto. Similarly, given that you exist, your parents must be your current parents — any two other people having sex would have produced somebody else.
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I am arguing that neither luck nor personal accomplishment play a role in these things because there is only one possible option anyway. Nobody would think themselves lucky to have won that dollar in this situation. I merely pointed out that the luck we are subject to there is not nearly on the scale the article was suggesting. Regarding the final item: I understood the article to say that either your success is down to luck or it is down to your own efforts.
X: Thanks for your reply. To be clear, i am not trying to say it is lucky we are born on this particular planet instead of another. The human race only exists on the planet earth therefor it is definitely not a coincedence that you are I are born here, sorry if my previous comment led you to that conclusion. If I understand you correctly, your argument is that given that a certain individual can only be the result of one set of parents, arguing that the situation for a child would have been different had it been born anywhere else does not mean anything.
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Altough i think i agree with you I am not sure whether this is relevant to the points made in the article. Neither one of these kids had anything to say in this matter of course, they did drew a sort of imaginary lottery ticket as you described it. Erwin: I really just drew the parallel with the world we live in because most people who read Quillette will be familiar with and understand that reasoning. I have to strongly disagree. They are completely random for the offspring and are pure luck. It only goes so far, though.
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But the song, later, seemed like so much bullshit. Most people for most of humanity have been poor. Were they all unhappy losers? Since when did your parent working hard and passing along the knowledge that hard work and education is important become luck? DeplorableDude, Andrew … And the fact that someone is hardworking is also luck; the child is lucky to be born of a hard working parent, and the parent is lucky to be constituted as hard working. Luck is a weird term for all situational realities. Most thoughts of luck come from the idea of random chance.
Sometimes a hard life leads to great innovations and accomplishment despite it, creating a fighting spirit where they overcome. Sometimes an easy life leads to drug abuse or sloth, or even lets you reach the highest political position without signs of grace, humility, significant accomplishments, kindness or pursuit of knowledge. This difference leads the Right to have a very different perspective than the Left in what they think is most effective ways to help those born less lucky, because only the Right looks at what works and what is possible.
For example, the Left wants open borders to solve world poverty, while the Right believes such policies will not help anyone because importing 5 billion poor people to the US or Europe, would overwhelm and destroy the social and economic systems that have made the US and Europe relatively wealthy, productive, free, and tolerant. Although the Right will acknowledge that they were lucky to have supportive parents, high IQ, and strong worth ethic, they also believe that no government program can hope to replace the positive effects of good parents, high IQ, or strong work ethic for those born without them.
I believe that the author was contending that we should move beyond this dichotomous way of viewing political philosophy rather than fretting the details of how the dichotomy is structured. Of course, viewing political philosophy as two distinct and immutable ideologies better serves your argument that one is good while the other is bad…. Anon I agree. History is clear on that.