Luck really matters.
Luck really matters.
Luck is essential to the human experience, and has been throughout history. It’s a powerful force that influences our lives in more ways than you might know. In fact, luck is such an important part of life that we couldn’t possibly understand it without looking at its origin: what is luck?
Luck can create a good life.
Luck can create a good life.
If you think about it, there are many ways in which luck has helped you achieve success. For example, being in the right place at the right time is one of the biggest examples of luck. For example, if you were born into wealth and privilege compared to someone who was not born into wealth and privilege, then this would be considered being lucky.[1]
Another way in which luck has helped people achieve success is when they were able to win the lottery.[2] While winning the lottery may seem like a fantasy that is unlikely to happen; however, this is not true because there are thousands of lottery winners each year![3] You never know when your lucky break will come along so keep believing that it will happen someday when it’s meant for you!
You also need luck as an entrepreneur because networking with others is key when starting up new businesses or trying something new within an existing company (e.,g., creating a new department within their company). Without networking skills – including knowing how much money should go towards advertising versus spending time building relationships – businesses simply won’t thrive beyond their first few years unless they’re lucky enough.”
Good luck can ruin a bad life.
Bad luck can ruin a good life.
If you are lucky, you can get away with more than others who are not as fortunate. When we have good luck, it feels like our lives are on cruise control. We do not have to work as hard for the same results because we are getting help from outside forces that have nothing to do with our own hard work or perseverance.
The opposite is also true: bad luck might mean that we have an extra challenge in front of us, but this does not mean that we will fail; rather it means that we need to try harder at everything else in order to succeed in spite of our troubles.
Bad luck can ruin a good life.
Bad luck can ruin a good life.
Good luck, on the other hand, can also destroy a life. The same goes for people who have neither good nor bad luck—they cannot be blamed for their circumstances. Luck allows us to make our own choices and take responsibility for them. Without luck as an excuse for inaction or failure, we’re forced to change ourselves so that our lives become worthwhile and fulfilling.
Luck can make bad people decent, and decent people terrible.
You may be thinking that you’re the exception to this rule, and that luck doesn’t affect your life at all. You’d be wrong. By definition, luck is pretty much everywhere—it’s in every aspect of our lives, even if we aren’t aware of it. For example:
- Luck can make bad people decent, and decent people terrible. Sometimes you’ll meet someone who seems to have it all: they’re good looking and intelligent; they have lots of friends; they live in a nice house and drive a fancy car. And yet, when you get to know them better (and sometimes even when you don’t), they turn out to be kind of an asshole! How does that happen? Well… think about what happens when you meet someone who isn’t so lucky as yourself (i.e., someone less attractive than yourself). The first thing on their mind isn’t necessarily how handsome/beautiful or talented/smart or nice person A is… instead, it’s whether or not person A will like them back! Now imagine what happens when multiple unluckier individuals are vying for one lucky person’s attention… there will be competition! And from the competition comes drama! The drama leads these unlucky losers into doing crazy things just so they can feel important—like cheating on their significant other or stealing from their employer—and thus losing some self-respect in the process.”
“It works both ways though,” I hear you say (or maybe I’m just projecting). “What about me? What if my luck changes?” Good question! In fact it could happen right now if this blog post suddenly became popular enough that Google featured me as one of its top stories today….
You’ll never see it coming.
The idea that you can never predict when your luck is about to change, or if it will change at all, is a sobering one. It’s that uncertainty that makes life so exciting and full of possibility. When we feel like we have no control over our destiny, we feel free—free to do whatever it is that makes us happy in this moment. And apparently, this sense of freedom has some pretty powerful effects on our brains.
It turns out that living without expectations might be the key to happiness (and maybe even productivity). A recent study by Harvard researchers found that people who expect good things are less likely to be happy than those who don’t expect anything at all or don’t believe they deserve certain things in life—even if those expectations come true!
luck is an essential part of the human experience
Luck is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. It influences our choices, relationships, careers, and more. Everyone wants to be lucky.
Most of us don’t think about luck on a daily basis. We assume that we are just unlucky or lucky at different times in our lives because some people are born into better situations than others. But what if we looked at luck as something that could be controlled? What if we learned how to harness the power of luck for ourselves?
We all experience luck – whether it’s good or bad – but most people don’t realize just how much their lives are impacted by luck until they start looking closely at their lives and realizing what impact it has had on them so far.