Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work

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Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work Julien Reszka · 2026-08-12T14:20 strategy decision-making startups work Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice. Hard work gets treated as the real answer, the one thing fully within your control, the reason someone made it and someone else did not.

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▪Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work Julien Reszka · 2026-08-12T14:20 strategy decision-making startups work Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable.
▪Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice.
▪Hard work gets treated as the real answer, the one thing fully within your control, the reason someone made it and someone else did not.

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Your Key to Success Isn't More Luck or Hard Work Julien Reszka · 2026-08-12T14:20 strategy decision-making startups work Hard work is grinding and only partly reliable. Luck is random by definition. Research on who you know is far more specific than most networking advice. 20% Higher adult income for children with economically diverse friends, the gap between a family earning 27,000 and one earning 47,000 a year Chetty, R. et al., 'Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility', Nature, 2022 Three things supposedly decide whether you succeed: how hard you work, how lucky you get, and who you know. Hard work gets treated as the real answer, the one thing fully within your control, the reason someone made it and someone else did not.

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