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Good question. The problem with "luck" is that you only know what's good or bad in hindsight. For example, if Google had been acquired for $1M the founders may
by dennybritz 11y ago
Good question. The problem with "luck" is that you only know what's good or bad in hindsight. For example, if Google had been acquired for $1M the founders may have lived happily every after. Only in hindsight we can say that it was lucky the deal fell through. So I guess it'd be better to call them "random events" instead of "luck".
- dkersten 11y agoI do believe that we can influence our luck (increase or decrease the likelihood of said random events) but I think some people are better at capitalising on random events than others. But despite our influences or skills at making use of these things, at some point random chance does take over and we have no control over that. All we can do is influence the probability of random events, not control them completely.