Paperboy_J on 29 August 2020
I recommend the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell, it will blow your mind. It's about this very topic, and breaks it all down in great detail. Fascinating stuff.
Like there's this one part that talks about Bill Gates and how the only reason he was successful was because he just HAPPENED to know a guy who let him use his computer for free (because computers were super expensive and hard to come by those days, and he couldn't afford his own) so he was able to get super good at programming before anyone else. If it hadn't been for that chance meeting, Bill Gates would not have been the success we know him as today.
The book is filled with examples like that, I highly recommend it. Luck has a lot more to do with it than people think.
