Invest Like the Best · September 9, 2024 · 68m

Morgan Housel: Risk, Luck, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Morgan Housel discusses the relationship between risk, luck, and narrative with Patrick O'Shaughnessy. His key insight: we attribute success to skill and failure to bad luck, but the reverse is often equally true.

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Return on luck — Housel argues that the best framework isn't 'was it skill or luck?' but 'how much return did they generate from the luck they received?'

Housel reframes the skill-vs-luck debate: everyone gets some luck (good and bad). The question isn't whether you were lucky, but what you did with the luck you got. Some people squander good luck; others amplify it. The return on luck is what separates great outcomes from average ones.

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Highlights

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Success is always a combination of skill and luck, but humans systematically over-attribute success to skill (when it happens to them) and to luck (when it happens to others)

Housel argues that every success story involves both skill and luck, but the narrative always emphasizes one at the expense of the other. Successful people say 'I worked hard.' Observers say 'They got lucky.' Both are partially right and partially self-serving.

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