Just Your Luck: Luck matters much more than we like to acknowledge.

Speaking to Harvard’s 2019 graduating seniors, dean Rakesh Khurana asserted that Harvard grads don't deserve their success. Rather, they are the benefits of privilege, of luck.

My reflexive reaction was to disagree. After all, I'm pretty successful despite coming from true poverty, living in a Bronx tenement, the child of Holocaust survivors who suffered the unimaginable and who spoke virtually no English, had no education, no money, no family, only the scars of the Holocaust tortures.

But on reflection, Khurana may be right. I make the case in my PsychologyToday.com article today.