Is Sarah Vandekkas's Fame A Lucky Break Or Calculated Genius?

With no clear answer in sight, we can do little besides puzzle over the qualifications for fame these days. Heres a look at some famous people who became celebrities for all the wrong reasons. Monica lewinsky lived an average life.

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Oprah's lucky break came at 17, when a nashville, tenn. , radio station chose her as its entry in a local beauty pageant based on her spunk during a radio interview. Research and experience tell a different story: The luckiest people arent lucky by chancethey create their own luck through the way they think, the risks they take, and the resilience they. When it comes to balancing the greatness of the work against the badness of the deed, the word genius simply breaks the calculator.

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Its a glittering absolute set into a dreary dutiful system of relative worth. Are successful people primarily the beneficiaries of luck, timing and cultural legacy? Thomas edisons journey illustrates this perfectly. No one would reasonably claim he got lucky when inventing the light bulb after hundreds or thousands of attempts. As edison himself noted, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

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