It’s shocking to the meritocratic American mind to see how the lead role in the drama of your success, to some extent, is played by Luck. The storyline of the American dream says that you are the protagonist: You call the shots. You take the raw materials of your DNA and life experience and develop a work ethic, a furious dedication to cultivate and shape your own talent and life arrangement in order to manifest your inmost vocational desires, such that you spend decades summoning the storm of your dream, only to find that at the witching hour, whence comes the time for your success to go
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