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It's hard for me to say how much we agree and are simply not communicating properly, but my main point is that the people giving advice do not properly acknowledge how lucky they were to succeed.

https://xkcd.com/1827/

I largely consider execution to be what you can control, and luck to be what you can't. You can break those down much further, but I really feel those are the important categories.

Anyway, I guess agree to disagree. Cheers.



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