Hassan Kuba and it starts with the thesis that life is fundamentally unfair. When we're looking at successful people they normally didn't just get there with hard work, there was normally other stuff that played a strong role like luck, circumstances, privilege, that sort of thing. And the equation that came to mind when I was reading through the book was that success, however we want to define it, is some sort of combination of fair play and unfair advantages. Fair play means factors that we would look at and think, all right mate, fair play. Like let's say there's a startup founder who gets up at three o'clock every morning and then goes for a two-hour run and then kind of hustles on his or her laptop all day and just like works really really hard. That would be a fair advantage we would say, all right mate, fair play to that. In a way it's something that any of us could replicate if we wanted to and therefore it is fair. But that same startup founder, let's say his or her parents were super rich and invested half a million dollars into their company from day one, that would be an unfair advantage. It's an advantage that really helps the business but something that the rest of us can't easily replicate. The unfair advantage is about distilling kind of one of the root causes of success that isn't spoken about and that's essentially that life isn't a level playing field. Everybody has different strengths and weaknesses inherently, that's number one anyway, but number two, circumstances are different. So people have access to a network, to finance, or the right location, the right timing. As Hasan explained, unfair advantages aren't just about our strengths, they're also about our circumstances. Basically something that gives us a competitive edge, something that someone else can't easily replicate. And one of the main ideas of the book, which is why the subtitle is how you already have what it takes to succeed, these unfair advantages aren't just for people who are rich and famous, they're for everyone. We all have our own unfair advantages in our own ways. How do we find out what our unfair advantages are? Well, we can use the MILES framework.
ハッサン・クバは、人生は基本的に不公平だというテーゼから始まる。成功した人たちを見ていると、普通は努力だけでそこに到達したわけではなく、運や境遇、特権など、他の要素が強く作用している。この本を読んでいて思い浮かんだのは、成功とは、それをどう定義しようと、フェアプレーとアンフェアなアドバンテージの組み合わせのようなものだ、という方程式だった。フェアプレーとは、私たちが見て、よし、フェアプレーだと思うような要素を意味する。例えば、毎朝3時に起床し、2時間のランニングをした後、一日中ノートパソコンに向かい、懸命