We have been told since childhood that the main secret of success is hard work or good education. But in reality, everything turns out to be not so simple. Triples become stars, and hard workers vegetate in obscurity. Before the era of big data analysis, no one could predict whether success awaits you and what it takes to become famous. One of the most cited scientists of our time, Albert-Laszlo Barabashi, decided to apply scientific methods to derive a formula for success. He studied the fate of thousands of scientists, athletes, people of art and identified five universal laws of success. These laws help to understand what invisible forces affect our achievements and failures. But the main thing is that using these laws, you can achieve recognition in any case.