The next time you’re tempted to start basking in the glory of your success while admiring the scoreboard, stop and pause for a moment. Ask yourself, What went wrong with this success? What role did luck, opportunity, and privilege play? What can I learn from it? If we don’t ask these questions, luck will eventually run its course, and the near misses will catch up with us. This set of questions, as you may have noticed, is no different from the ones we explored in the last chapter on failure. Asking the same questions and following the same process regardless of what happens is one way of
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