4. Ignorance of your own luck or others’ misfortune

Not all success is due to hard work and not all failure is due to laziness. Even if you agree with that, it’s astounding how easy it is to jump to conclusions.

In most cases of extreme success or failure, the line between bold and reckless was thin.

What separates the billionaires from the bankruptcies can be the slimmest movement – one customer’s choice, a judge’s decision, or a fluke where fate went one way when it easily could have gone the other.