"The idea that you are successful because you are smart and hardworking is pernicious and wrong, because it means everyone who is unsuccessful is stupid and lazy."
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"Minouche Shafik: āThe idea that you are successful because you are hardworking is perniciousā" in The Guardian (22 January 2022)
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