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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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Some part has to be earned (pure lottery wins/inheritances don't seed identity) but luck above effort feels like proof of chosen-one status
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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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main problem is people rationalising unfair luck into "getting what they worked for", so that unlucky people are seen as undeserving
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