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Is Success Due to Hard Work, Talent, or Luck?
Manage episode 345956379 series 2137790
How to survive in a world where luck and randomness play a pivotal role.
Topics covered include:
- What are power laws
- What are the narrative fallacy and hindsight bias
- What are examples of domains where randomness has contributed to success
- What are ways to distinguish investing skill from luck
- How sixth-century philosopher Boethius had an accurate view of chance
- What are ways we can benefit from good luck while protecting ourselves from bad luck
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Show Notes
Redacted messages to and from Elon Musk—Delaware’s Court of Chancery
Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius by Charlie Warzel—The Atlantic
Welcome to Susan Alexandra’s Dream World by Sophia Herring—Clever, Architectural Digest
Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact by Roberta Sinatra et al.
Middle names make you look smarter—University of Southhampton
Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically by Štěpán Jurajda and Daniel Münich
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Were Those Great Returns the Result of Skill — or Just Luck? by Julie Segal—Institutional Investor
Related Episodes
323: The Economy Is Not A Machine
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Manage episode 345956379 series 2137790
How to survive in a world where luck and randomness play a pivotal role.
Topics covered include:
- What are power laws
- What are the narrative fallacy and hindsight bias
- What are examples of domains where randomness has contributed to success
- What are ways to distinguish investing skill from luck
- How sixth-century philosopher Boethius had an accurate view of chance
- What are ways we can benefit from good luck while protecting ourselves from bad luck
For more information on this episode click here.
Sponsors
Show Notes
Redacted messages to and from Elon Musk—Delaware’s Court of Chancery
Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius by Charlie Warzel—The Atlantic
Welcome to Susan Alexandra’s Dream World by Sophia Herring—Clever, Architectural Digest
Quantifying the evolution of individual scientific impact by Roberta Sinatra et al.
Middle names make you look smarter—University of Southhampton
Admission to Selective Schools, Alphabetically by Štěpán Jurajda and Daniel Münich
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Were Those Great Returns the Result of Skill — or Just Luck? by Julie Segal—Institutional Investor
Related Episodes
323: The Economy Is Not A Machine
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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