The Science of Success
44 min | English | Canada | Australia | Annamaria Talas | 2022
We'd like to believe that talent and hard work bring professional success, but these qualities only determine our performance. Scientists believe success is something different: a social phenomenon. So then, how does society choose winners from losers, success from failure?
As we leave our digital fingerprints everywhere, social and data scientists set about investigating this as a tool to study success. After three years of collecting data, scientists came up with something incredible: a mathematical formula that predicts success in the future.
The Science of Success reveals an exciting, new understanding of how society works and offers insights into how to achieve success. These discoveries will have profound implications for society as well —the outcome of elections, the products we buy, the choices we make — they are all determined by hidden principles. The game of success can be ruled by the most surprising details, like the moment of a person’s birth, the place you are in, or the people you meet.
As hard as it might be to believe today, the Mona Lisa -the most valuable painting in the world- got her fame just by accident. But what would happen if her story had turned out differently?
