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Mar 2019
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You're Not Lucky!

Rob Dial
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Episode 559 - Do you believe in luck? Do you believe that some people are luckier than others? Well I am going to talk about the subject of luck in today's episode and tell you why you should worry about skill more than luck, because luck might not even be real... 
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