Hi, this is Chris Howard, host of Plug2R Chris Howard, and I'm taking OK State over the Wisconsin

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If you're persistent, if you keep attacking the goal again and again, you're much more likely to

succeed. The really key step is to get unusually good at something. In a winner-take-all economy,

it's the people who are best at what they do who are going to get the biggest rewards.

And you're not going to get to be the best at what you do unless you find something that you

really love doing because otherwise it's going to be just too difficult to stick with it and

put in the necessary effort to do that. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger.

On the Jordan Harbinger Show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most

fascinating people. We've got in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game, astronauts,

entrepreneurs, spies, psychologists, even the occasional rocket scientist, extreme athlete,

or neuroscientist. Each episode turns our guests wisdom into practical advice that you can use to

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Today one from the vault, Robert H. Frank, he's a professor at Cornell and the author of Success

and Luck, Good Fortune and the Myth of Maritocracy. This one is all about the role of luck, talent,

and hard work and what balance each of those achieves success. It might not be quite the mixture

that you think and many of us tend to minimize the role of luck and our success, we'll discuss why

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