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It's a book about how people over interpret
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--they tend to blame themselves for failures
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and congratulate themselves for successes too much
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and they don't realize
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that it's just random.
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Some guy who's in a business--business is succeeding
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--why is it succeeding?
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Because the guy came in,
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dumb luck at the right time
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and everything is supporting that, concludes that he's a genius.
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Then Taleb observes them later,
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after things don't go so well,