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Success in cultural and professional fields is driven more by chance and path dependence than by talent.

Drawn from what Henry Farrell said

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ideas vs execution Whether the idea or the execution behind it is what actually decides an outcome, and who deserves the credit.

What Henry Farrell actually said

  1. Henry Farrell Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author
    much cultural success is stochastic (the experimental evidence suggests that talent only moderately predicts success in culture markets), and that path dependence shapes chances of success

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