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I really don't like how many people talk about "luck". They are not really talking about the concept, they are using the "luck" word as la language figure of so

I really don't like how many people talk about "luck". They are not really talking about the concept, they are using the "luck" word as la language figure of something else, and that's misleading to the reader's intelligence (writers that do that are like making the reader's imagination go drunk instead of leaving it more richly nurtured). The categories the author is talking about are more about the creation of positive selected opportunities. If you invest your efforts in maximizing the possibilities that good things stop being impossible to happen, then (due to Murphy's Law) they just might, and if you're there and catch them, most people will call that "luck".

the_only_law 4y ago
Yeah, you can do everything this article says and more and still fail, that to me, is [bad] luck.
- Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
  I'm not very good at statistics but is it fair to say luck over someone's lifetime would fall into some kind of normal distribution? If you simplify extremely and model the good luck vs bad luck outcome as a coin toss (I think overall outcomes bias towards bad luck) some people are going to hit the bad luck outcome every time due to pure chance (all coin flips come up tails) whereas the bulk of people will have some mix of both good and bad outcomes. So I think (ignoring all the flaws in this model) some people would be just more unlucky over their lifetime due to pure chance and that's what we mean by bad luck.
  - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
    And if you travel, or migrate, or meet someone that brings a big positive (or negative) influence in you, you'll disrupt that normal distribution in one shot.
- sebastianconcpt 4y ago
  But what you said used in your favor means that if you "minimize the surface" of bad things being possible to happen, then you can only improve your life experience. Taking seriously this line of thought would make you think from how Epigenetics influence your body at the cellular level, workout/nutrition to optimize the development of your genetic patrimony and who you spend your time with (social patrimony). That's why, some times, fabricating "fresh start" moving to another place would be designing such a thing.

the_only_law 4y ago

Yeah, you can do everything this article says and more and still fail, that to me, is [bad] luck.

Guid_NewGuid 4y ago
I'm not very good at statistics but is it fair to say luck over someone's lifetime would fall into some kind of normal distribution? If you simplify extremely and model the good luck vs bad luck outcome as a coin toss (I think overall outcomes bias towards bad luck) some people are going to hit the bad luck outcome every time due to pure chance (all coin flips come up tails) whereas the bulk of people will have some mix of both good and bad outcomes. So I think (ignoring all the flaws in this model) some people would be just more unlucky over their lifetime due to pure chance and that's what we mean by bad luck.
- sebastianconcpt 4y ago
  And if you travel, or migrate, or meet someone that brings a big positive (or negative) influence in you, you'll disrupt that normal distribution in one shot.
sebastianconcpt 4y ago
But what you said used in your favor means that if you "minimize the surface" of bad things being possible to happen, then you can only improve your life experience. Taking seriously this line of thought would make you think from how Epigenetics influence your body at the cellular level, workout/nutrition to optimize the development of your genetic patrimony and who you spend your time with (social patrimony). That's why, some times, fabricating "fresh start" moving to another place would be designing such a thing.