🏆🎲 Debate Night - Is success talent, luck, or hard work?

When and where

Date and time

Sun, Aug 30 · 11:00 a.m.PDT — local Vancouver time

Location

Vancouver Central Library350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BCVancouver

About this event

**Formal Debate Night - structured room vote + live argument.** **Short summary** Success stories are usually told by the winners. That should make us suspicious. People love saying success comes from talent and effort. It is clean, flattering, and useful if you already made it. Other people say success is mostly luck: timing, birth year, geography, the right market, the right accident, the right person opening the right door. And then there is the third answer people get very quiet around: Social protection. Family wealth. Networks. Class. Institutional access. A safety net. A second chance after failure. Someone paying rent while you “take risks.” Someone making the introduction that changes everything. So this debate is built around one uncomfortable question: **Are successful people mostly talented, lucky, or socially protected?** Not resentment theatre. Not winner-worship. Not everyone using their own biography as proof that the universe is fair. A real debate about merit, luck, e

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Price:

Free

Organizer:

Vancouver Curiosity Club!

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