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title: Lucky Fools
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tags:
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- topic/psychology
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# Lucky Fools
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A lucky fool is someone who stumbled into success
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in a field where competence is normally prerequisite,
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especially if they sincerely believe
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that their success _was_ due to their competence.
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somewhat related:
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* [hot hand fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_hand)
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* [gambler's fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy)
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Books concerned with lucky fools:
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* [[taleb_2001_fooled-by-randomness]]
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* [[kahneman_2011_thinking]]
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* [[hubbard_2020_failure]]
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