This is a response to Joxmb's recent thread on how much luck is involved, and then he talks about dental school and businesses and stuff.
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/ge...xactly-how-much-luck-involved.html#post212528
What is luck? What does it mean? How do you get it? Is it an inherent trait? Do you believe in luck? Because I'm sick of people saying 'You gotta get lucky'.
Like the example in MJ's book, someone said Bill Gates got lucky, whereas MJ says that luck didn't build a business, operating systems, selling operating systems and other software, etc. I don't know what to think of 'luck'.
To me, I've always considered luck to be the things that are out of your direct control, e.g. what celebrity buys your product and tells his 1.2 million Twitter followers, or the idea you got from a friend that solved a need, or... I don't even know. What IS out of your direct control? I mean, if you get the flu and miss something that could have been a huge opportunity then was that 'bad luck'?
This is something I'm confused about because I know when people say "You gotta get lucky to get rich" they all have different definitions of lucky.
https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/ge...xactly-how-much-luck-involved.html#post212528
What is luck? What does it mean? How do you get it? Is it an inherent trait? Do you believe in luck? Because I'm sick of people saying 'You gotta get lucky'.
Like the example in MJ's book, someone said Bill Gates got lucky, whereas MJ says that luck didn't build a business, operating systems, selling operating systems and other software, etc. I don't know what to think of 'luck'.
To me, I've always considered luck to be the things that are out of your direct control, e.g. what celebrity buys your product and tells his 1.2 million Twitter followers, or the idea you got from a friend that solved a need, or... I don't even know. What IS out of your direct control? I mean, if you get the flu and miss something that could have been a huge opportunity then was that 'bad luck'?
This is something I'm confused about because I know when people say "You gotta get lucky to get rich" they all have different definitions of lucky.
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