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Work · December 2, 2020

Success: effort or luck?

Discover how succesful people reach the top

Success: effort or luck? launched on December 2, 2020 with 117 votes, #309 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

You could work as hard as you wanted and still not be successful. And it’s not an opinion — it’s math. An interactive experiment to explore how and why the most successful people really reach the top – and why most stay mediocre.

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.

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. 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 randomly generated,…from rameerez.com

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