[quote=“KXKVI, post:37, topic:97388”]I think there’s a flip side: people who feel they’ve had success purely through “sheer determination and hard work,” but had a lot of luck too (meeting the right people at the right time, having the right parents, etc.).[/quote]It seems to me that you really can’t hope to convince someone who believes they’ve “had success through ‘sheer determination and hard work’” that things might be otherwise. Why should they believe they’re subject to the same capricious whims of fate as everyone else? It’s a terrifying prospect – far less pleasant than the belief that one is master of one’s destiny, superior to one’s peers – and, after achieving a certain level of success, one from which they are in general safely isolated.
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