zmVault/lucky-fools.md

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Lucky Fools	topic/psychology

Lucky Fools

A lucky fool is someone who stumbled into success in a field where competence is normally prerequisite, especially if they sincerely believe that their success was due to their competence.

%% somewhat related:

• hot hand fallacy
• gambler's fallacy %%

%% Books concerned with lucky fools:

• taleb_2001_fooled-by-randomness
• kahneman_2011_thinking
• hubbard_2020_failure %%