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525: Robert H. Frank | The Myth of Meritocracy

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The Power of Bad Luck

The idea of bad luck actually serves us. We don't view negative outcomes as inevitable because of the luck factor, right? Some authors have suggested that that asymmetry may be perversely adaptive. Sometimes believing things that are not quite good descriptions of the way the world really is may help you overcome certain other psychological tendencies that would be destructive to you.

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