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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 Why it’s often luck, not talent, that takes us to the top No one likes to admit it — but life’s lottery has a big role to play in success  Financial Times Life & Arts Nov 9, 2024 | 797 words | ★★★★ ★   In Never, Rick Astley’s recent autobiography, the ’80s pop star describes how looking back over decades gave him a fresh appreciation of one critical factor in his success. “You see how much luck and chance is involved in your life and career,” he writes in the prologue. “You can have drive and ambition and talent, but there’s a huge amount of luck involved too: you know, someone wrote a three-and-a-half-minute pop song in 1987, and my life completely changed as a result of that. It’s ridiculous, really.”  This particularly resonated. Not just because I’ve always admired Astley for appearing to remain normal in a volatile industry (though Never shows it was more complicated than that). But ………………………………