Put simply, being in the right place at the right time, and having connections, can be as important as having the skills and experience.
I always tell my kids, you can try your best and still fail. Sometimes you will succeed without any effort at all. Luck will affect the outcome of anything you do.
But you have to be ready for the luck. You have to work hard to be in a position to take advantage. Hard work can mitigate your failures, and any effort you put into doing your best is never wasted because you’re trying to be the best version of yourself.
That’s why you try. Not because you might win and get wealth and fame and glory. You try because you want to be the person who tries.
See also, honesty, kindness, generosity, forgiveness. These are not things we do to be rewarded. The universe (not to mention other people) is going to let you down more often than not. You should still be honest and kind and generous and forgiving and hardworking because that’s the person you want to be.
you can try your best and still fail
One of my favourite Star Trek quotes
I’ve always said personally that to be the very best at something you need 1. Talent, 2. Dedication and 3. Luck. You can still be very close to the best with only two of those things, but if luck is all you have you’re just going to be something like a lottery winner who blows it all in a month. Alternately, if you cultivate a habit of working hard towards your goals, then even in bad situations you’ll be prepared to make the best of it that you possibly can, to get back to a good place faster.
What a great line from TNG!
That’s a point of view I had never considered before and makes negatice outcome less despairing (? can’t quite find the right word). Thanks a lot!
IMO success is based entirely on the choices you make with the opportunities you get.
LUCK is the opportunities you get.
But the better choices you make with your choices the better the opportunities LUCK provides.
And those born into better opportunities can snowball them into a life where as those unlucky enough to start at 0 stay there by design
And in Cuban’s case, you just have to exploit the fuck out of a shitload of people. Only way to create a billionaire.
My high-school economics professor was such a smart dude.
The most important part of his entire class was driving home the truth that no matter how hard you work, your success will always be determined mostly by luck.
And how economies aren’t something to “win” but a tool for society to give people what they need/want in exchange for contributing to society.
No plan has ever come to fruition without a substantial amount of luck -Reality.
