'Survivorship bias' has become a standard explanation for why success stories mislead: we see winners but notlosers, and falsely attribute success to visible traits rather than invisible luck. While this critique is valid, it oftenstops too early. Dismissing success as 'just luck' obscures the structural conditions that made success possible̶orfailure likely. This paper proposes an attractor basin framework that goes beyond survivorship bias to reveal hiddenstructure.We argue that success and failure often reflect different attractor basins̶regions of possibility space that pulltrajectories toward particular outcomes. 'Luck' is often initial position relative to basin boundaries. 'Talent' is oftenbasin depth (resistance to perturbation). 'Breakthrough' is often basin transition triggered by specific conditions.This reframing has practical implications: while we cannot control initial position, we can understand basinstructure, recognize basin boundaries, and sometimes engineer transitions. The survivorship bias critique correctlywarns against naive imitation; the attractor framework shows what can be learned from success and failure whenwe look at structure rather than surface.