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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 224 Heads 10 Times in a Row
Description: If you were flipping a coin, and you had never done it before, and you got 10 heads in a row, wouldn't you think it was easy? That's what most successful people believe: they attribute their winnings to hard work & skill, where in reality they were simply at the extreme margins of probability. Unfortunately, since nothing but chance separates the winners from the rest of us, and luck can't be quantified, we simply ignore that most essential of all components. But the problem is, we've built a society around the mythology of merit, when in reality the top quarter of...