We have all grown up to believe the Emerson quote “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” If we are intrinsically better at something, we will find success in that area. But what if that is just not true? What if our success has little to do with being the best? Plenty of entrepreneurs, innovators, and artists have wondered “why did success come to them, when mine is so much better?”
It turns out that there is scientific....