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'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is the dumbest take you could possibly get from this.

Edit: In case you didn't get it from the article. He is saying all that extra work he put in didn't actually get him parts.. It was random timing and luck that landed him a role.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, I think all the extra work he did do helped the luck come to him. He was constantly working and looking to get those roles, so when they did come around, he was ready to take the opportunity. Luck is still the dominant factor, but working to be ready to take advantage of the chance was important too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's still luck, not hard work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, it's definitely both. Luck is going to be the larger factor on that level of success, but there's still a large portion of hard work that went into it.

We want to dismiss the successful as just being born under the right star, but a large portion of it is still hard work. They get disproportionately rewarded for that hard work, and often they have to do less and less hard work as time goes on... but there was hard work involved, whether we want to admit it or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No wonder propaganda is so effective. Someone can tell you to your face their experience, and people will just dismiss it out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're right! The man can say he works hard for years and you dismiss it as entirely as just luck instead of mostly luck.

No one is saying luck isn't the deciding factor here, we're just saying there's also a limited measure of hard work. It's not all just one thing. There is a very precious few who just keep falling into luck over and over again, but they're in the extreme minority of even the successful. The majority of them put in some hard work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good talk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe one day you'll decide to have one with someone else instead of the voices in your head :)