JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Love for heroes such as Henry Mancini limits our view of success
US film composer’s story shows situational factors determine achievements too
When the success of an individual is appraised the tendency is often to ignore how much of it was situational. All the focus falls on “how he or she did it”. This approach is flawed but fits in with the human love for heroes, people who overcome the odds to achieve success.
Many factors come to bear on individual success — whether it be on the sports field, in entrepreneurship or a professional career. The career of Henry Mancini, the man who blessed the world with the Pink Panther theme, is a good example of the mutually beneficial interaction of individual (including talent and effort) and situational factors...
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