Steven Pinker Interview
January 18th, 2009 by Lewis Frumkes
Steven Pinker is one of the world’s greatest cognitive scientists and thinkers straight from Harvard and MIT. Pinker graced the cover of the New York Times Magazine recently talking about his own genome which he had allowed to be decoded. Pinker is not only bright and nice, he is genuinely bold intellectually and he is really interesting. Hear us banter.
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March 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Pinker’s right about people “making up stories” about how they got where they are. I’ve read books by successful people about their successes, and then I’ve read articles by journalists about those same people, and it’s a shock how often the successful people complete omit from their bios the shear dumb luck that contributed to their rise in the world. They want to put their successes down purely to hard work and talent. God forbid they should admit to luck being part of the equation.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Big questions. But whatever luck turns out to be you are correct that it is often not credited in success, though I have come across a few celebrities who openly acknowledge its role.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Hard work versus luck; There is luck and there are odds. People that work hard might have increased odds of being set up for lucky opportunites. Writers that write everyday have increased odds of getting published. Sitting down next to an editor on an airplane might be luck, but being given the opportunity to succeeded arises with hard work. Is it possible that people that work hard don’t relaize how lucky they are? People that relize they are lucky feel they might not deserve the success.