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And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part o
by DiggyJohnson 4y ago
And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part of their success is luck based.
Everybody already knows that. Determination, skill/natural ability, and luck are essentially how we get anything done in our lives. Usually a combination of all three, and you’re focusing on the one that an individual has no control over. It’s unproductive.
- solar-ice 4y ago> And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part of their success is luck based. There are entire cultures out there that acknowledge and respect that where they are today is built, partly, on random chance. Saying that you are where you are entirely on your own individual merits is just /rude/ to many. Just because yours likes to pretend otherwise doesn't make that pretense universal.
- Broken_Hippo 4y ago"And you should not expect to be good friends or acquaintances with someone who has worked hard to overcome something because you need to remind them that part of their success is luck based." Why not? A reasonable person can easily see that things are part luck and part work and will admit it outright. Sometimes 70% work, sometimes 70% luck.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoRight, so if reasonable people are all aware that part of success is luck based (success = luck/opportunity + skill), then there's no reason to point it out unless it's critical to the conversation.