Success and Luck

book by Robert Frank

Themes: success, inequality, chance, merit, economics

Collected thoughts and marginalia from reading this book over time, emphasizing what held attention and what continued to matter afterward.

The Meritocracy

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert Frank

Not enough people recognize the role that good fortune and luck plays in their success, and that too many people attribute their success entirely to their own hard work and virtue