| I think it's a mistake to assume that just because something is a skill it's not influenced by "luck". For example, from what I understand, in the big five model of personality, conscientiousness is over 40% heritable. Anecdotally, I remember how even in the first grade there were kids that were clearly low in conscientiousness and kids who were clearly high in conscientiousness. Pretty sure the kids in the latter group didn't instill a work ethic into themselves by age 6. I hope that it's possible to develop conscientiousness as an adult, at least to some degree, but clearly it is something that you can be born into. I'm using "conscientiousness" as an example, I don't think it's the same thing as "hustle", in fact I'd even suspect that there's some conflict between the two. However, my point is that development of skills aren't independent from luck, since we all are dealt different cards with which we then have to play. |