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My experience is usually the opposite to be honest. When I look on any forum or social network dedicated to an art form/creative form, it's usually the rich and successful saying how it's all about skill and how their hard work got them there, while it's the poorer, unsuccessful folks talking about luck.

This fits very well with the idea of a self serving bias, where people take credit for their successes and pass off their failures as the fault of external influences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias

Which makes sense to me. If you're successful, it must feel horrible to think about how you might not deserve your current status, and how so many equally talented/hard working folks failed miserably in similar circumstances. While if you're unsuccessful, thinking that maybe you just suck and deserve your situation must feel equally miserable.




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