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Pointing to luck renders all advice meaningless.
by bcrosby95 17d ago
Pointing to luck renders all advice meaningless.
- esseph 17d agoLuck can mean opportunity, but doesn't reflect on capability, availability,or outcome.
- jdiff 17d agoMuch advice is meaningless, baseless post-mortem correlations from people trying to justify their own success.
- rexpop 17d ago"Buy more lottery tickets!"
- teravor 17d agono, it's "buy lottery tickets to exclusive lotteries". the ability to enter such lotteries is where success lies. either through connections or ability.
- harimau777 17d agoIf you need connections and ability then you are back to luck.
- smcg 17d agothose can be cultivated.
- harimau777 17d agoTo a degree maybe but the degree differs dramatically for different people. To give an extreme, someone with a significant disability growing up in an impoverished family in the middle of nowhere is generally going to have very little opportunity to cultivate connections and ability.
- rexpop 16d agoIn my metaphor, "lottery winners" is already representing exclusivity.