What Lucky People Do Different
Whenever I see these kind of articles, two words run through my mind: survivor bias.<p>I'm also unconvinced by the John Galt argument that if Steve Jobs had not taken calligraphy courses, we would not have nice typefaces on computers today.  After all, typography predates the Mac and it would have been only a matter of time before someone else figured it out.  If you don't believe this, look at practically every major discovery / invention in the past few centuries -- in almost every case more than one researcher / scientist / dilletante was working on something similar.  The lucky one was the one who got there first.