525: Robert H. Frank | The Myth of Meritocracy
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Robert H. Frank (@econnaturalist) is the HJ Louis Professor of Economics at Cornell University and author of Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. [Note: this is a rebroadcast from the vault.]
What We Discuss with Robert H. Frank:- As we strive to achieve success, there are natural limits on how hard we can work and how smart we can be. There’s no denying that luck plays a part in this achievement.
- Understand the role of luck, talent, and hard work in the overall formula.
- Discover why we tend to minimize the role of luck in our success.
- Find out how to maximize our luck in life by way of context outside of talent and work.
- Learn new ways to look at the luck factor and turn it to our advantage.
- And much more...
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| 1:37.0 | Today one from the vault, Robert H. Frank, he's a professor at Cornell and the author of Success |
| 1:42.3 | and Luck, Good Fortune and the Myth of Maritocracy. This one is all about the role of luck, talent, |
| 1:48.2 | and hard work and what balance each of those achieves success. It might not be quite the mixture |
| 1:53.1 | 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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