Ignoring the first world birth lottery I think the genetic lottery is far more important than people think. We all acknowledge that the ability to play even high level junior hockey is limited by genetic ability. We don’t seem to acknowledge that Medicine, Engineering, STEM fields etc are also gate kept by genetics.
So even being lucky enough to have the intellect to succeed in a certain profession is luck.
More and more I fall into the belief that we have very limited ability to actually control outcomes. Essentially do you work hard at something because you choose to work hard or do you work hard because the reward centers in your brain are wired to to reward that behaviour. If it’s the latter a lot of genetic / environmental factors that you have no control over are governing your outcomes.
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