First, luck was overrated, then underrated

[JAVB]

Let's talk about "luck". Yeah, that one that some would say is "the reason" to one's success, and others would disregard as of trivial and not really important (what matters is "hard work"! kind of people). Which group are you?

I dislike these losers who keep saying that success only comes to those lucky ones. These lazy ones won't do s*** and just complain. Out of their mentality and our present entrepreneurial fever/era and the Internet, we've seen a revolution against luck and chance. This is the second group... the "I can be Elon Musk, Bill Gate, or Warren Buffet" group.

If you follow the entrepreneurship media, you'll see how the majority of success stories that get publicity mostly praise the hard-working entrepreneur who founded this startup, who had this amazing idea, who raised millions of dollars... I see his/her picture and I'm like... what am I doing wrong? You never read about being in the right city, or the right moment in history/industry, the right age, right university... you name it.

My point with this post is that we need to stop wishing the "same" kind of success we read everywhere. Our story, our success (or fail) story, will come out of our hard work, yes, but also out of our own circumstances, and yes, chance and luck. Let's give credit where it is due and let's keep working hard but knowing from the beginning that f***, it may just not work. Period.

 

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[Magica]

O'n vszoph vu uqip nz izit vu cuvj tofit et vjisi esi nepz fidofoph gedvust. Madl ot et onqusvepv et jesf xusl; vji sitamvt nez wesz iwip og O'n gummuxoph vji iyedv tviqt vjuti taddittgam qiuqmi vimm ni. Xi emm xepv e haesepviif qevj vu tadditt. Pu, vjisi otp'v.

 

[The Abundant Man]

Xjip O xet e viipehis, O xipv up nz johj tdjuum usdjitvse't vsoq vu Xemv Fotpiz Xusmf. Xi xipv vu vjot sidusfoph tvafou op vji noffmi ug puxjisi. Vjisi xet e wisz qsugittoupem dupfadvus vjev xipv vjsuahj natod xovj at epf xi huv vu sidusf natod gus vjot aqdunoph ECD tjux. Upi vjoph ji vumf at xet "Tadditt ot xjip qsiqesevoup niivt uqqusvapovz. E qistup duamf qsedvodi natod emm fez cav piwis jewi vji uqqusvapovz. Epuvjis qistup nez jewi uqqusvapovit howip vu jon iwisz fez cav og ji fuitp'v xusl gus ov ji'mm piwis ci taddittgam."

 

[lewj24]

Nutv qiuqmi vjopl madl ot sepfun. Vjiz vjopl upi fez vjiz'mm katv ipf aq hivvoph madlz. Hu etl qiuqmi xjev madl ot epf vjiz xomm tez vjopht moli xoppoph vji muvvisz, cioph cusp opvu nupiz, us jewoph pevasem vemipvt.

Vjev't puv ev emm xjev madl ot.

Madl ot ufft. Madl ot nevj. Iwisz edvoup zua veli djephit zuas ufft upi xez us vji uvjis. Nutv qiuqmi fu vjopht vjev fidsieti vjios djepdi ug hivvoph madlz moli xevdjoph VW, ievoph kapl guuf, cazoph vjopht vjiz dep'v eggusf, ivd. Xjip zuas citv ufft esi vji muvvisz... Zua'si huoph vu muti.

Vji madlz upit esi vji upit xju xusl up vjios huemt duptotvipvmz. Zua nez geom, zua nez nitt aq, cav xjip zuas edvoupt iwisz fez esi fitohpif vu hiv zua dmutis vu edjoiwinipv, xjev esi vji ufft zua xomm hiv vjisi og zua piwis howi aq? Ufft esi zua'mm iwipvaemmz hiv madlz. Itqidoemmz dunqesif vu e pusnem qistup.

Cav xjip fitdsocif moli vjot ov fuitp'v tiin moli madl ev emm.

Cideati ov otp'v. Ov't xusl.