I'm a Self-made Man

©darrengarcia

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "SELF-MADE" MAN.

We are taught to believe that  ingredients to success are highest level of passion, talent, and hard work. We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit. But that is not the reality...

Everyone owes something to parentage and patronage. People don't rise from nothing. Hidden advantages, extraordinary opportunities, and cultural legacies allow some people to make sense of the world others cannot. Success is a result of something sociologists call "accumulative advantage", something neither deserved nor earned. 

It operates on the same line with how grace and mercy are bestowed.

Ideas Excerpted from:  
OUTLIERS  
BY MALCOLM GLADWELL
 
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Questions to ponder:

If one cannot be a hero by mere grit and talent, how can we fight our way to greatness? How do we avail of accumulative advantage if it works like grace and mercy?

*grace-something given that we don't deserve
*mercy-something we deserve that was not given