I'm enjoying reading the responses on this thread. I did my doctoral dissertation in social psychology on this very topic 35 years ago: To what do people attribute their successes (and failures)--to internal or external factors?
A whole field in psychology called "causal attribution". Of course, the attributions being made depend on a number of factors, including how much evidence we have for being lucky or being good.
Most of the folks posting here have evidence of how one or the other (luck: external, or being "good": internal) have played a part in their lives.
There is also research on how we make causal attributions for others: "Oh, he was just lucky..."
Thanks for sharing! Brings me back to graduate school days.
A whole field in psychology called "causal attribution". Of course, the attributions being made depend on a number of factors, including how much evidence we have for being lucky or being good.
Most of the folks posting here have evidence of how one or the other (luck: external, or being "good": internal) have played a part in their lives.
There is also research on how we make causal attributions for others: "Oh, he was just lucky..."
Thanks for sharing! Brings me back to graduate school days.