Word: luck
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...other big takeaways? A huge one is reversion to the mean [the tendency of an extreme event to be followed by a less extreme one]. Really high performance is a function of skill and luck. And luck, by definition, is transitory - it comes and goes. The next time you do something, even if you sustain your skill, maybe you'll have a little less luck, and you'll mean revert. When you apply that to the world, you see it everywhere - corporate performance, sports-team performance, individual performance. It gets you to think about how to evaluate outcomes. For example...
...performed well and created a lot of chances, and although there was no luck on our side, we created a lot of opportunities,” junior defender Jaren LaGreca said. “Everyone stepped up and played well...
...Crate & Barrel building on Brattle St., which has also been empty since January, has had less luck in finding tenants. “The building is an award-winning design, and it’s unlikely the owners are just going to put anyone in there just to rent out the space,” Jillson said...
...take a piece of the sunshine with me on an all-night drive to another world” and the poignantly direct opening line: “Another perfect day / They keep piling up / I got happiness that I can’t maintain / so beginner’s luck.”The most successful contributor of the three vocalists, however, is unquestionably M. Ward. “The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me” is the best track on the album and serves as a melancholic insight into what could have been if MoF had produced...
...Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision-making...