Human Achievement
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
2 statements about Human Achievement, every show
De Botton: Historically, achievement was seen as effort plus divine intervention
“Most societies for most periods of history have believed that any achievement is, is a combination of individual effort and divine intervention.”
Duckworth: Human achievement follows a log-normal distribution, not a bell curve
“Human achievement is not bell-shaped. It's extremely skewed, right? It's what some would call log normal. But the point is, is that there's this really long tail to the right, and then basically everyone else is bunched together anonymously, you know, 99% of h…”