CHAPTER 4 ARE SOME PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED?

You may have people around you who have the knack of leading amazing, enviable lives, or you might envy people you see in the media. Whether you personally know and admire successful people or whether you envy them from a distance, it’s perfectly natural to wonder if some are more cut out for success than others.

It’s helpful to know whether some people are more likely to succeed and why as a way of ensuring that you’re in the right psychological framework. This helps you cultivate the mindset of success. You will place yourself in life so that you are open to serendipity, luck and the thrill of randomness. To help you reach this understanding, this chapter analyses why some people are more ...

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