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Mentions personal use of Untangling Luck and Skill.

27 Apr 2016 Acquired Virgin America

“I’ve read the book too which is worth reading, too, called Untangling Luck and Skill.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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27 Apr 2016
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Acquired
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Virgin America

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…David, this is so weird. I haven’t watched this in probably two years and it was something that I’ve recommended to friends very often and so I was sitting here before the episode thinking I didn’t see anything particularly interesting this week that I wanted to recommend, but I have an oldie but goodie. It is absolutely wild. This talk is great and it’s based on a book. I’ve read the book too which is worth reading, too, called Untangling Luck and Skill. Yup. Untangling Skill and Luck: The Success Equation, and it is so, so fascinating. He gives so many great examples that will make you both follow it logically and nod your head and sort of scared about how much of your own success has been out of your control or how much the world is out of our control. So how much of your own success cannot be attributed to you and how much of your own failure cannot be attributed to you, and trying to figure out what are things that you have perfected.…

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