Put simply, being in the right place at the right time, and having connections, can be as important as having the skills and experience.
Put simply, being in the right place at the right time, and having connections, can be as important as having the skills and experience.
The flowchart is more that you may get lucky once or twice in your life, and work and preparation are meant to take advantage of those instances instead of screwing them up.
Some poeple have their parents buy them hundreds of lucky chances, other people never get a shot.
And then there’s a hell of a lot of Dunning–Kruger being interpreted as not having a chance. Meritocracy is a lie, but idiots thinking they have cosmic bad luck and society is against them when they’re actually idiots, assholes or both is also definitely a thing. The problem is it’s hard to separate the two, particularly if you’re the idiot/asshole.
Also some people have cosmic bad luck AND are assholes.
This is also possible. And great luck and success while being assholes as well.
The human temptation to read cosmic morality patterns into reality is both entirely irrational… and kind of a good motivator to create moral patterns to impose on reality, if you put some effort and collective action into it.