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Life & fun · December 2, 2020

An interactive simulation to explore the effect of luck in success

You could work as hard as you wanted and still not be successful. It’s not an opinion — it’s math. Play and discover how successful people reach the top.

An interactive simulation to explore the effect of luck in success launched on December 2, 2020 with 8 votes, #1,101 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, politicians, astronauts... there's one thing they all have in common: success . Most will say this is just the product of skill, hard work and dedication: but is it really? Let's take one random person as an example. This will be you . You will be represented by a random 🏋️ hard work score (skill) and a random 🍀 luck score . Your 🏆 total success will be calculated as % hard work and 0 % luck. Play with the random generator until you're happy and ready to move on. Meet the rest But you're not alone in the world, aren't you? These are 0 more random people , representing the rest of the population – the people you have to compete with. They have been…from rameerez.com

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