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I'm honestly not sure I'm understanding you properly, but if I am, this is true up to a point. We like to believe in a world where everyone's results are direc
by j_baker 16y ago
I'm honestly not sure I'm understanding you properly, but if I am, this is true up to a point. We like to believe in a world where everyone's results are directly correlated with how much work they've done, but that's just as much a fantasy as it is to believe that all you have to do is sit around and wait for the right opportunity to magically appear.
I hate to break it to you, but the most successful people in society usually got there not only from hard work but from being in the right place at the right time.
- Xurinos 16y agoI hate to break it to you, but the most successful people in society usually got there not only from hard work but from being in the right place at the right time. According to studies on "luck", one key is to be in a LOT of places. It increases your chance of being in some right place at some right time. Another key is a positive attitude, of seeing opportunities and taking advantage of them. So it is difficult to tell when someone's behavior (work) causes a success versus when it truly is a lucky break.
- syllogism 16y agoThe best way I've heard this described is, you've got to maximise your luck surface area.
- iamwil 16y agoI was mostly talking about dating girls. It may seem obvious in hindsight, but at the time, I just took it as word. But it's also applicable to other aspects of my life. Whenever I've taken initiative and grabbed the situation by the horns to change, it's been for the better.
- philwelch 16y agoOdd. For me it's the exact opposite--any and all advice about how to grab the situation by the horns and take the initiative and approach girls, nothing ever worked out, but things did happen when I least expected them.