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A Point of View: Chance and Opportunity

01/11/2019

Chance and Opportunity

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David Goodhart ponders the idea of 'smart luck'.

David Goodhart reflects on the role of chance encounters and personality in helping to tackle social mobility.

As the Tory leadership election highlights questions of social mobility, David Goodhart looks at why some people seem to have more luck than others.  To what extent can we create our own opportunities, regardless of background?  What role does personality play?  And is it really possible to engineer and cultivate our own luck by being open to chance encounters?  

Producer: Adele Armstrong 
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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