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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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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this is troubling, suggests some doomed to be unhappy if there's only finite amount of "luck" (opportunity) to go round. But is there?
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historically luck budget has increased, but within individual lifetimes it's effectively static modulo booms/busts

