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The Comparing Trap

Harvard Business Review

Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. Bob Merton was as gracious and supportive as the colleague I mentioned earlier. When only external factors become our metrics for success, we are setting ourselves up for misery. You see the problem. DeLong is the Philip J.

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Life is Luck — Here’s How to Plan a Career Around It

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman has claimed the following as his favorite equation: Success = talent + luck. If you imagine a game of “career roulette,” you end up a starving artist 99 times for every time you end up a rockstar. Great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck. There are no “starving dentists.”

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