> So the question becomes, what's the difference? It's mostly luck most of the time, and that includes the amount of motivation you have to go beyond in that v

> So the question becomes, what's the difference? It's mostly luck most of the time, and that includes the amount of motivation you have to go beyond in that venture. This is mostly my opinion, but the evidence I've seen over the years lead me to conclude this too. How motivated you are at one thing, and how exclusively focused your motivation is, from what I've read, is mostly luck. But beyond that, there's a lot of factor purely driven by luck, your genetics, your environment, the time and place of your efforts, etc.