Is Success Due to Hard Work, Talent, or Luck?
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How Random Factors Can Affect Your Career
A study in Germany found Germans that had more noble sounding names were more likely to hold managerial positions. Another looked at students trying to get into oversubscribed universities in the Czech Republic. Success had nothing to do with talent or hard work, but there were these random factors such as last name and month of birth.
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