<rant>
This has been bugging me lately. People are constantly telling me that in order to get rich you must work hard (agreed) and also get lucky. I hate this idea of getting "lucky" because at the end of the day those "lucky" people are just persistent. Try thinking of a few people that you would say truly got lucky in their road to wealth (besides lotto winners ).
Even my own dad after he saw me reading all these business books and saw me on this website has begun to criticize me. The latest being today:
Him: "Want to know how you get rich?"
Me: *mumbles*"Sure" (Knew where this was going to lead.
Him: "Hard work but mostly luck"
This idea of luck just bothers me. People love to blame their failures on luck instead of taking any responsibility for themselves. This type of attitude sucks because it is an excuse not to get better and frankly I cannot stand that type of thinking.
How can you stop doing something on a failure? Certainly you could have prepared better - read more, ran fast in practice, be more persistent - so why stop and just attribute your lack of success to luck? Do you attribute most of your success to luck? I doubt it, and if you do, that's giving yourself a reason not to improve if your success is based on luck and nothing you do.
It's sad we cannot just accept someone worked harder for something, was more persistent, or just took the time to produce an idea instead of just having an idea.
Ha, guess this shows the type of people I am around and why I am moving halfway across the country at the end of summer. haha
</rant>
This has been bugging me lately. People are constantly telling me that in order to get rich you must work hard (agreed) and also get lucky. I hate this idea of getting "lucky" because at the end of the day those "lucky" people are just persistent. Try thinking of a few people that you would say truly got lucky in their road to wealth (besides lotto winners ).
Even my own dad after he saw me reading all these business books and saw me on this website has begun to criticize me. The latest being today:
Him: "Want to know how you get rich?"
Me: *mumbles*"Sure" (Knew where this was going to lead.
Him: "Hard work but mostly luck"
This idea of luck just bothers me. People love to blame their failures on luck instead of taking any responsibility for themselves. This type of attitude sucks because it is an excuse not to get better and frankly I cannot stand that type of thinking.
How can you stop doing something on a failure? Certainly you could have prepared better - read more, ran fast in practice, be more persistent - so why stop and just attribute your lack of success to luck? Do you attribute most of your success to luck? I doubt it, and if you do, that's giving yourself a reason not to improve if your success is based on luck and nothing you do.
It's sad we cannot just accept someone worked harder for something, was more persistent, or just took the time to produce an idea instead of just having an idea.
Ha, guess this shows the type of people I am around and why I am moving halfway across the country at the end of summer. haha
</rant>
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