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Why Success Is Mainly A Matter of Luck
The pig part luck plays in life Huub Buijssen
New topical book by author of ‘When a Loved One Is Depressed’ and ‘When a Loved One Has Alzheimer's'
When someone is successful in life, we attribute that success to the person: he or she has worked hard, followed a dream, made use of his talents. While someone who has had much success, largely owes it to the same factors that for another have lead to huge problems or disappointment. But with this one difference: the coincidences turned out much more advantageous for one of them. Someone was exactly in the right place at the right time and had the fortune that a coincidental rare combination of advantageous factors were allocated to them. Health psychologist Huub Buijssen has been fascinated for years by this phenomenon and researched how big of a part luck and coincidence play in success in various paths of life such as business, sports, science and literature.
In this book Buijssen shows that both hard work and taking risks aren’t personal virtues but rather a type of luck. Consequently the more successful someone is, the more lucky they have been. To finish up he talks about the political and social consequences of the central idea that every bit of success is largely due to luck.
140 x 215 mm | 192 pages | 69,000 words paperback | all rights available
Huub Buijssen is psycho-gerontologist and clinical psychologist. He has written more than forty books, amongst which, When a Loved One Is Depressed. His books have been translated into English, German, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Korean.
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