I’m too tired to look it up, but I remember someone saying that resilience or grit was one of the best indicators of success. Someone replied that actually the best indicator of success is if you came from wealth.
Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!..Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol
I’m sure grit + wealth is far better than either alone. It’s really probably grit + wealth + connections + luck.
Hey now. That “emerald mine in apartheid South Africa” but is not true at all. He benefited from being the son of a rich white guy in apartheid South Africa. The emerald mine was in Zambia. He materially benefited from colonial rule in TWO countries.
touché
That’s how generational wealth works
Self Attribution Fallacy
https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/