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>> It's not a guarantee of success, but it's definitely not luck Luck favors the well prepared, but if you can do everything right and success is still an even

• AmericanChopper 5y ago
  That’s just self-defeating, because to draw these conclusions you have to artificially limit the scope of what your examining to a really contrived level. If your goal is to have a successful career, then you really don’t need to succeed at any particular task on any particular day, you need to succeed over time. If you want to get a new job, perhaps it’s luck if you get the one particular job that you wanted to get, at the one particular company you wanted to work for. But if your goal is to get a certain type of job offer within some reasonable timeframe, that likely doesn’t come down to luck very much at all. There are some career paths where luck plays a much greater role. Like if you want to be a famous musician, or the president. But for most careers, this isn’t highly relevant. The chance of success for anything is always less that 100%, so you can frame every event that will ever occur as the result of luck if you want to. But if your goal is to achieve a more general level of success over the course of many years, then you can absolutely devise a strategy for doing that.