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tombert an hour ago

Absolutely luck as well. No argument there.

Noaidi an hour ago | parent [-]

If any of your success was determined by luck than 100% of your success was luck.

xboxnolifes 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That is simply not true. If 6 completely qualified people make it to the last stage of an interview based on their qualifications, but the final chosen person was done by die roll, there was still non-luck involved. No amount of luck would have gotten you to the last stage in this example, and the only way for luck to have mattered is if you also put in the leg work.

tripledry 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At least they sent the application, that was effort. So it can't be 100% luck right?

tombert 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if I agree with that characterization, I don’t see how that changes anything from what I said before.

I am sorry if you got “my success is purely because I am a hyper-talented genius” from my anecdote there, because that certainly wasn’t intended. There was absolutely luck involved, no argument, but my point about “applying to a job I wasn’t qualified for” still can hold.