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If you don't enjoy an exponential unfair-returns success or two, even if minor, you end up the sum total of your rejections and failures.
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Curiously, growth identity seems to form around how lucky you've been. Not your deserved/earned successes but lucky premium beyond that.
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If you only get exactly what you worked for, you'll be unhappy. It's perception of unfair luck in your favor that seeds good mental health.
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Narrative angle: luck beyond efforts casts you as a *comic* hero of your own life story. Comic heroes feel like they have guardian angels.
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"The compensation for a very early success is the conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense, one stays young" -Fitzgerald
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Those who experienced a stroke of great luck early on that contributed to extraordinary confidence and optimism, and thus further success
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