What Does it Take to be Lucky?
Many people are guilty of calling others "lucky," especially when they perform far above their expectations. When people achieve unexpected success or overcome adversity, it is common to believe that it was due to factors beyond their control.
For example, we expect the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, but when the poor get richer, it creates upward momentum that defies normalcy. Life is gravitational in nature; for example, we expect someone with wealth and connections to always get their way because they possess the necessary ingredients for everything to fall into place for them.
I agree that luck can appear out of nowhere, with no effort, expectations, or work, it simply happens.
For example, someone may be fortunate to be born with good genes or to be as attractive as ever. A person can even be born into a wealthy family and enjoy benefits for which they did not work. This means that there are parameters that, by default, make a person lucky, but the same parameters that make one person lucky can also make another person unlucky.
Imagine being born disabled, orphaned, and poor in a third-world country with no one to care for you after being rejected by your birth parents. This means that people are born lucky or unlucky, but our actions, decisions, lifestyle, actions, or inactions can cause us to be lucky or unlucky later in life.
Life's Blame Games
However, it is always easier for people to blame others for their misfortunes than to acknowledge their own success, which is due in part to the fact that failure is easier than success. It requires no effort to destroy, but everything to build. The second reason is jealousy.
Many people are jealous in life, and you may not even be aware of it. It is an inborn trait that requires discipline to manage.
When people excel, it is easy to dismiss their accomplishments, especially when we start comparing ourselves to others. Comparison is the mother of jealousy; when we start comparing ourselves to others for too long, it breeds toxicity.
In all of this, I have concluded that most secondary forms of luck are a fair reward for effort, and it is always important to recognize the efforts of those who have played a role in their success story, no matter how minor their contribution may appear on the surface.
I came across a raffle draw hosted by one of the Telegram mini apps, and a Nigerian won approximately $4000 USD simply by entering the daily ticket. That money will actually be sufficient to transition them to web3. They can put half of that money into the right project and easily make $40k USD at the peak of the bull market. Everything boils down to a single well-made decision.
Making the right decision appears simple until you make thousands of incorrect decisions. Everyone has made terrible decisions in their lives; some people are fortunate that their bad decisions did not ruin them.
At the same time, one wrong move can undo years of hard work.
In Conclusion
That person who won the raffle may have been unlucky after putting so much effort into so many ventures, but it has finally paid off. People who are unfamiliar with their story may believe they simply appeared out of nowhere and did nothing to earn the money they do. When we can not see people's scars, it is difficult to applaud their perseverance.
When people succeed, some people struggle to believe they worked hard enough. Every hustler has a pay day This cliche may be old, but it is mostly accurate.
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Someone used to say ''I found out that the harder I work on some of my projects, the luckier I got in that direction.''
Exactly, it's more work that actually makes luck easier. But sometimes there are people who make luck seems like nothing.
Here in Brazil we even have a way of saying that "after it works out, they'll say it's luck", but nobody sees the struggle and how hard it was to make it work, so they just judge that it was luck or that everything was easy, but nobody thinks about what the person went through to get where they are.
It's a human thing. I reckon the way it is in Brazil is the way it is all over the world. Crypto for example is always deemed easy especially when people begin to make profit, others forget the years of the bear market and call it sheer luck
Of course, the hive in my life, for example, has already become the motivation for some nasty comments, but when everything works out (more than it already is) they'll obviously say it was luck haha.
I love that your statement, "When we cannot see people's scars, we cannot applaud their perseverance". It's absolutely true.
But the part you said that comparing oneself with others yield jealousy, I have a question to ask there.
Let's take for instance, I have a role model like Ronaldo. I'm always comparing myself with him and aiming to be greater than he is in the football history. I only compare my achievements with his without keeping grudges, I just want to take after him and become the next legend. Would you say that if negative?
I'm asking because I feel comparing oneself with others can sometimes depending on the the person's motive for doing so😎.
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I love the saying 'Luck is where discipline meets opportunity'. There is such a thing as luck, but if you are not prepared to meet it when it arrives it will float on by to the next person.
Thanks for this. It's one of the most logical way to look at it. You just have to position yourself rightly and that's when everything begins to fall in place
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If you don't stop trying, you can always win something. It rewarded that person for continuing his own efforts. I don't think we can blame everything on luck, but luck can always happen.
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When we can not see people's scars, it is difficult to applaud their perseverance. That's it friend, we all have stories just that people are not willing to listen. I face this a lot of times, people think you are actually not doing much for success because they don't know what you once sacrificed. It can be humility or something close
Exactly, the truth is that only success stories are actually celebrated
I think you may be lucky in one or more circumstances. But in the long term, it's not luck but decisions you make that define your success.
Exactly, we might be lucky for few times, but it just won't carry us through the major roads of life
Well spoken the wise one💯