Luck

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(01-01-2023, 10:43 PM)Bengalbug Wrote: You make your own luck. If you put yourself in enough favorable situations, it’s bound to bounce your way more often than not.

Not necessarily true: how about people playing the lottery for the first time in their 50 years on Earth and winning a jackpot? Sure, they went out there and finally bought a ticket, but that really isn't making your own luck if there is a requirement beforehand to do so.

Like you said: putting yourself in favourable situations helps, but I'd say that's less, "making your own luck," and more, "you've prepared better, so there's a better chance of you coming out on top." That's a law of sorts, that may or may not be directly impacted by luck.

Take my close friend: he has never really saved in his life, doesn't work (still doesn't, though he'd been working seasonal jobs while waiting for an opening in his field. He's been waiting 5 years, but he still waits! lol) and he's basically treading water, career-wise.

He bought a house before any of our friends/peers. Why? 'cause his mother sold her house for 1.5 mil and split it 3 ways: 1/3 for her, 1/3 for my friend and 1/3 for his brother.

Now you tell me: did he make his own luck because his mother was alive, had a huge house all to herself and has no one to give the money to, so she gave it to her sons? Or did his years of lazing about and not taking things seriously life and career-wise, made him be as lucky as he was to get this house?

"Making your own luck," is really just code for, "you prepared well for the situation and when an outcome was to come out of the situation, you were on the positive end as a result of your prep."