If one individual is selected from the pool of 8220;Mercedes quality8221; workers for the Private Jet lifestyle then Taleb would attribute this selection to Blackswan serendipity that lead this worker to be selected out of a pool of possible canidates similar to the example he gave of authors published in major medical journels.I think that this is a piece of the puzzle, its true uncontrolable randomnessserendipity play a huge role in life. There is no reason to get upset over things outside of your ability to control or predict. But this perspective also ignores the 8220;X8221; factors that are controllable factors that are directly attrituable to success.Pushing through the dip harderfaster then your competitors. Being that inch better in quality of productsideas. Using principles of strategy in Greene8217;s books. All Xfactors that lead to success and that can make the difference between being just another Mercedes and being the tricked out Mercedes that reaches the tipping point to become phenomenally successful.