There is actually research that indicates "luck" isn't as random as we usually imagine. People with certain habits tend to be perceived as "lucky."
Faith literally means believing in something. The idea that believing something will work is simply delusional is inherently problematic.
You may actually have good reasons for believing it will work.
We always have only partial information. That doesn't mean just bulling on ahead, and don't confuse me with the facts, is a good approach. It means that the people who succeed can't necessarily explain their success adequately to satisfy those who would like to follow in their footsteps.
I also would bet that sometimes they don't really want to explain it. Giving away "the secret sauce" may not be in their best interest.
I like the take Mark Burgess gives in In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure where he states that separation of concerns is "a necessary consequence of loss of resolution due to scale ... a strategy for staying sane." Perhaps having scope-blinders and persistence is simply perceived by outsiders as irrational, whereas internally it is an intellectual tool for focus and achievement. Of course, there are drawbacks to mad focus...
Faith literally means believing in something. The idea that believing something will work is simply delusional is inherently problematic.
You may actually have good reasons for believing it will work.
We always have only partial information. That doesn't mean just bulling on ahead, and don't confuse me with the facts, is a good approach. It means that the people who succeed can't necessarily explain their success adequately to satisfy those who would like to follow in their footsteps.
I also would bet that sometimes they don't really want to explain it. Giving away "the secret sauce" may not be in their best interest.