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It sounds dismissive. Try that on your friend or someone that says "I worked hard on this, my company sold, etc..." Ahh you were lucky nice.
by ge96 4y ago
It sounds dismissive. Try that on your friend or someone that says "I worked hard on this, my company sold, etc..." Ahh you were lucky nice.
- nkjnlknlk 4y agoYou shouldn't be praising that the company sold. Of course, a congratulations, etc. is in order (as you would if someone won the lottery!). What you should praise is the _input_. Their hard work. The effort. I believe there are studies reinforcing this difference being crucial wrt education of children but I don't have any on hand. :)
- Broken_Hippo 4y agoOddly enough, I doubt you'd think that it sounds dismissive when you turn it around: "I worked really hard on this, and then I got sick and everything fell through" "Really sorry you had some bad luck, I know you worked hard on that" Simply bringing up - in a public forum - that luck and hard work goes hand in hand isn't dismissive. It is just pointing out how things simply are. No one is dismissing that folks work hard on things. Working hard simply isn't enough for success.
- ge96 4y agoYeah it just seems to chalk it up to chance, as in you can't take ownership of your deeds because it was just "luck". To me luck is buying a lottery ticket. A rocket doesn't fly on luck, it's planning, calculations, it's not "bad luck" something went wrong and they figure out what it was.
- ge96 4y agoI will "concede" to this that yes I was a lucky person, some random people (they were blood relatives but might as well be random) decided to adopt me from a 3rd world country, idk why. Even though I failed college I still found a way out.