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Well, you're wrong. Luck is a big factor in exceptional successes. As the article says: it's not sufficient. It's not necessary to be moderately successful. Bu

by brazzy 14y ago

Well, you're wrong. Luck is a big factor in exceptional successes. As the article says: it's not sufficient. It's not necessary to be moderately successful. But no matter how tenacious and "success minded" you are, without a stroke of luck your success will be pretty limited. When someone uses lottery winnings to start a successful company, do you really think they would have gotten "dozens of opportunities each year" to invest a large amount of money however they want? It's of course a very attractive delusion to claim that luck has no part in success. To the successful person it increases their personal sense of achievement, and to the one hoping to be successful it makes big successes appear more achievable. Especially if you add the idea that it's not about talent/intelligence either but only about mindset. But it's still a delusion.

n3rdy 14y ago
I disagree. Success is all about trial and error. If you want to call it luck when you run out of things that can go wrong, then call it luck. I consider luck to be an exception, not an inevitability. The only role luck has in achieved success is avoiding the errors by doing things correctly the first time around, but that still isn't exactly luck, because not knowing what can go wrong leaves you vulnerable to future problems. > When someone uses lottery winnings to start a successful company, do you really think they would have gotten "dozens of opportunities each year" to invest a large amount of money however they want? My point was you don't often hear about lottery winners investing their money and turning it into a business system. You do hear about lottery winners blowing their windfall with nothing to show for it in the end though. If good luck is the only reason that people born poor can become wealthy, then is bad luck the only reason that people born wealthy go broke?

by brazzy 14y ago

n3rdy 14y ago

I disagree. Success is all about trial and error. If you want to call it luck when you run out of things that can go wrong, then call it luck. I consider luck to be an exception, not an inevitability. The only role luck has in achieved success is avoiding the errors by doing things correctly the first time around, but that still isn't exactly luck, because not knowing what can go wrong leaves you vulnerable to future problems. > When someone uses lottery winnings to start a successful company, do you really think they would have gotten "dozens of opportunities each year" to invest a large amount of money however they want? My point was you don't often hear about lottery winners investing their money and turning it into a business system. You do hear about lottery winners blowing their windfall with nothing to show for it in the end though. If good luck is the only reason that people born poor can become wealthy, then is bad luck the only reason that people born wealthy go broke?