3 ms·
Luck is a huge factor, but mostly blamed for failure, few of us have the insight to attribute much of our success to luck.
by RachelF 9y ago
Luck is a huge factor, but mostly blamed for failure, few of us have the insight to attribute much of our success to luck.
- lhuser123 9y agoI sometimes wonder why it's so easy to forget about luck when we are successful. The mind can create an illusion, an alternative world where luck is less relevant.
- projektir 9y agoI think luck is mostly blamed for failure because no energy is expended on it in that direction. I.e., if you are lucky enough to be able to work on something that earns you lots of money, you may still end up having to spend energy/effort/time on something to earn that money. Even if the situation is lucky, there's effort being expended, and in a relative sense, the amount of luck is irrelevant to the amount of effort. I.e., "you're lucky to be able to be a software engineer" != "you did no work and got everything for free". On the other hand, bad luck can hit out of nowhere in the form of random medical expenses. I think that's generally what's happening. When people work for something and then get it, they generally aren't going to consider that the availability of the situation itself is luck, because they're more focused on the work they put in. When bad things happen to them, or when good things don't happen, the individual often has nothing to do with it, hence it looking like pure luck.