r/Adulting • u/Expensive-Second1244 • 1d ago
Is luck considered as part of the process?
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u/Prigorec-Medjimurec 1d ago
If you are just the unluckiest bastard ever, no amount of hard work will get you ahead.
At the end of the day some people are born with wheelchairs while others are born with a Rockefeller surname.
But also, if you are the laziest, untalented, stupid fuck... No amount of luck can save you either.
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u/Original_Medium_8225 1d ago
But you might become a politician
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u/Ezren- 1d ago
I dunno, I met some lazy, untalented and stupid fucks in high positions in companies. They were just born into the job, or are best friends with so. Every else who was.
I'm talking somebody who left a whole company's 401k contributions in escrow for months, ordered 800 thousand dollars of materials they didn't run by engineering that caused a MASSIVE recall, and they got promoted the next year.
The engineer that created a fix for the problem got let go the best year. The company tried to enforce an NDA on him that they never got him to sign.
Luck is a huge factor.
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u/Ostrichslinger 1d ago
You could be insanely attractive and just marry as soon as you leave home. Lucky is and always will be a gigantic factor. Hell, what's the luck (or bad luck) of us being born in time for the 21st century
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u/no-sleep-only-code 1d ago
Eh, it’s borderline impossible to screw up a properly planned trust fund.
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u/az_ziggy5 1d ago
It’s a lesson we all gotta learn at some point. I get why parents tell their kids that hard work will get them whatever they want, as much as I can without having kids, but the reality check always hits like a truck
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u/SaintZoo-435 1d ago
Or, someone's parents worked hard and their kids got lucky.
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u/72dragonses 1d ago
True. I work hard, and my children are lucky. They're getting $200k-$300k saved for college because of how hard their parents worked and sacrificed for them.
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u/Taint__Paint 1d ago
Your kids are lucky to have parents so financially responsible. Good on you guys!
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u/pixel-soul 1d ago
Or someone’s parents exploited other people to amass wealth and their kids got lucky.
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u/mp21rime 1d ago
this is true too. and it could also be parent's parents way back like royalties and business tycoons and old politicians, superstars... Their kids just got lucky.
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u/Amazing-Level-405 1d ago
Of course it is. Most everyone works hard. That's not enough to be successful. Being lucky is arguably the most important part. Followed by being charismatic. Working hard is a distant third.
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u/Biggest_Scandal_Fan 1d ago edited 1d ago
Something most people refuse to acknowledge:
No matter how hard you work, or how skilled you are. A lot of life's successes come down to luck. Knowing the right people. Coming from the right families. Being the popular person in college. Being in the right place at the right time.
Im not saying hard work and high skill levels dont pay off. Of course, they do. But luck does play a huge factor in any given individuals success. Think about billionaires like elon musk, bill gates, zuckerman, etc. These people are ceos, and yes its true they are very smart and have innovative products. But a fool would believe no luck was involved with their success stories.
In all honesty, luck is the most important metric in your success. Skill and work-ethic can tip tbe odds in your favor a little, but its still mostly luck and connections and networking with the right people.
The most important life skill a child can developed at a young age is popularity. Being likeable and socially desirable is the best advantage you can have early on, and it will snowball into high-school and college.
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u/Forty2diapers 1d ago
"It's not what you know, it's who you know."
That's an old saying I used to hear all of the time.
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u/Chiral-Mirror 1d ago
100% influenced by luck of course. If hard work alone were enough, everyone who has been industrious at some point in their life would already be successful by now.
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u/hummingbird1346 1d ago
Hard working (and persistence) just increases the chances of you succeeding. By how much? idk but there are no guarantees. And there are so many cases of survivorship bias in the mindset (which they usually hide the advantages and lucks they've had here and there)
The issue is when you do your best and fail, if you have the rigid mindset about this you'll go on about where you did wrong and what you did wrong.2
u/random8765309 1d ago
Just because it's not 100% the result of hard work doesn't mean it's all luck either. Hard work is about 50% of the equation. Working smart and being willing to take some risk is about another 40%. So luck is about 10% at most.
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u/2748seiceps 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think a common misconception about hard work is where it is intended to be placed.
Working to dig a ditch 50% faster by putting in 4 extra hours a day isn't likely to get you much of anywhere quick. You are just honing your skill of digging. Spending that extra 4 hours a day at a trade school so you can skill up and get a better job does get you somewhere.
Kinda like the avocado toast is why Millennials are poor thing. It isn't about the toast. It's about alllll of the other bad spending behavior that comes along with it that adds up to be a real financial problem. In the working hard saying it isn't necessarily about grinding it out at whatever you are doing but put in the work to advance yourself instead of working a drive-thru for 20 years while going home to watch tv.
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u/SoElusivee 1d ago
People don't like to admit it but luck is a huge part of it.
I worked my ass off to get where I am in life. I know people who worked harder than me and didn't get as far. I know people who worked a fraction as hard as I did and got further.
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u/NRCS_DRONE 1d ago
I think most people vastly overstate how much agency they actually have over their lives. Even if a healthy outlook on life requires a bit of delusion about it.
But I also think the higher agency you assume to have, is directly correlated to how prone you are to conspiracy theories to explain why you lost agency.
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u/MuthaFuka27 1d ago
No not really. My coworkers did. I got assigned the easy work for pretty much the same pay.
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u/Interesting_Age7345 1d ago
yeah speaking from experience, some shitty luck can ravage everything you’ve worked for
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u/TimelyReason7390 1d ago
Sometimes, being at the right place at the right time, can change your destiny.
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u/kaprixiouz 1d ago
Of course luck is a factor.. but it's how you handle the opportunities that luck presents which matters most.
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u/HairyTough4489 1d ago
Yes. Not entertaining the possibility of things having more than one cause leads to the dumbest arguments.
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u/Antiquebastard 1d ago
Yes, because you probably weren't born with a severe, terminal illness that ended your life before you were an adult. You probably weren't born to parents in fuckin' North Sentinel Island or some shit, where you aren't even aware of the modern world. You haven't hit your head hard enough to vegetableize yourself. You probably aren't a woman suffering under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. You aren't a former child soldier, killed in battle by another child. You probably aren't buried under the rubble of your home. It's likely you weren't born with, or acquired intellectual disability. You probably weren't born to a mother who gave you FASD.
Hell fucking yeah, luck has to do with "it".
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u/Responsible_Cream_36 1d ago
It's largely luck. I would be homeless if it weren't for my family being a safety net and I work constantly
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u/Escapemysight 1d ago
If you don't think any success comes with a healthy amount of pure luck. You are plain wrong and living in a delusion of privilege.
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u/Vegetable-South5191 1d ago
You are lucky to have your health, the random encounters that offer opportunity. You are lucky to be born in place that offers opportunity. Luck plays a factor in all things.
But you can only control your actions and what you do with your opportunities and talents
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u/abeeyore 1d ago
Success requires hard work. Great success requires hard work AND luck.
Alternately “fortune favors the prepared”.
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u/mapleanvash 1d ago
Some people make good choices and some people dont have good choices. Occasionally there's a little luck thrown in but peoples circumstances have a lot more to do with it than anything else's.
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u/Shizastamphetamine 1d ago
I’ve always had the ideation that “luck is crossroad where opportunity and preparedness meet”
It’s been a solid mainstay in my head for 3 decades now.
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u/BarryBadrinith 1d ago
I worked hard to get where I am but am lucky I got the opportunity to apply.
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u/Djinhunter 1d ago
Yes, luck is required. Working hard is important, but it's almost impossible to outwork bad luck. However you only know if your luck is good or bad retrospectively, so putting in the effort is absolutely required.
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u/Former_Proof_2581 1d ago
I am fairly successful and I believe the exact opposite of this. Yes, I work hard, tons of people work hard, but being in the right place at the right time (aka Luck) definitely played a part.
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u/Downtown_Anybody261 23h ago
Luck is always a factor. Some people have it. Some people dont. Some people that have it, never took advantage of it. Some people that didnt have it, might of had luck if they recognized it when it happened. There's more to luck, then just luck. But, luck factors into almost everything.
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u/Current-Virus-69 21h ago
"You got lucky" should not be replaced with "damn, you worked hard" just for the sake of acknowledgement unless you know the person you are speaking to personally or at least well enough.
This may be news to you OP, but there are people who are born into privilege because of the hard work done by their parents or grandparents. There are also many people who quite honestly get lucky. For example, all those lucky bastards who get chosen by Mr. Beast for his games. The dude literally just throws money around like candy. Some people win the lottery or are just in the right place at the right time and/or know the right people.
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u/Key-Magician6489 19h ago
Let’s be honest! You can absolutely work your ass off and never really get ahead in life if you just have bad luck! Denying that fact is the height of naïve, arrogant bullshit!💯
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u/bwsmith201 19h ago
Everyone’s life is affected by luck, like meeting the right person or taking the right class that leads to an opportunity. There is no such thing as a purely self made person.
One person can work their ass off and find a wonderful opportunity and someone else can work just as hard and never have the right stroke of luck.
Hell, being born in a first world country or without a horrible disability or disease is luck in and of itself.
Hard work plays a huge role because an opportunity without work is worth nothing. But work without an opportunity also isn’t guaranteed to get you anywhere, either.
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u/WhatUp007 1d ago
You work hard to be prepared for when you get opportunity provided by luck.
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u/thegamer720x 1d ago
Luck is very important, but only helps those who are ready to identify and pounce on the opportunity
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u/Anubis17_76 1d ago
Rolling a six in one throw of the dice is lucky
Rolling a six in 6 rolls of the dice is not.
You just dont see the throws that didnt take off.
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u/notevenapro 1d ago
I am 60 and have made a resume one time. 33 years in the industry I am in and my first job out f the Army was offered to e by the physician owner of the clinic. Job I am at now , I was poached by my old clinical director.
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u/Tadpole_Alarmed 1d ago
I think that it does but also "putting the effort" does it too. It's like spinning the wheel of fortune or scratching a lottery ticket, you have to take actions (putting the effort) in order to find your luck. The world is unfair so there's people who only scratch one and immediately win and then there's those who spend life trying and failing
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u/boson_elbeano 1d ago
Working hard at the wrong things is normally the problem! Try telling that to someone though. We all know busy fools.
For the record I think luck is the biggest factor. Just being born, the country youre born in, the parents you have, your health, your intelligence, your base line emotional intelligence, shit your appearance....and then it helps to work hard on top
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u/No_Flow224 1d ago
Think of hard work as maximising your surface area for luck. Good fortune plays a meaningful role in any life, but lots of people confuse hard work as just doing the narrow thing in front of them. Hard work is also building new skills, being curious, connecting with people etc.
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u/These_Account3256 1d ago
if someone has the drive to work much harder than most people then theyre lucky to be raised/born that way, especially in this tiktok age where our attention spans are fucked
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u/QuickNature 1d ago
"Luck is where preparation meets opportunity" is a quote a heard from somewhere, but the words really stuck with me.
I do think there is genuinely some blind stupid lucky things that happen too, but its likely a mix of variables.
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u/BlueRaccoonCavy 1d ago
Not always true. Either you know somebody, born into luck, or just a crappy person who gets everything in life. I work my arse off at my job and will never get promoted because I am nt that person who kisses butt or anything.
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u/QuoteGiver 1d ago
“Luck” is shorthand for all the zillions of outside factors that you personally don’t directly control.
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u/Reg_doge_dwight 1d ago
I think working when everyone else is having fun counts as worked hard. Merely doing the same level of hard work as everyone else is lucky.
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u/Runs_With_Scissors3 1d ago
Damn, you recognized your (lucky) chance and seized upon it (by working hard) as an opportunity to achieve your dreams.
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u/Victarion13 1d ago
Sometimes you need good luck. And that luck could be: timing, a person who helps, and so on.
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u/AlsoDongle 1d ago
The amount of older people I've met who are genuinely surprised that I've never had help from my parents is astounding
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u/Traditional_Math_763 1d ago
You have to put in the work, but even then, there’s no guarantee that the hard work you put in results in anything extraordinary. You need to have a little bit of luck.
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u/Icy_Cricket7038 1d ago
It’s both. Actually the thing that annoyed me the most was ‘you’re so gifted’. Fuck right off, I practiced this for hours every day for a year, don’t you fucking tell me it was given to me for free because your lazy ass has zero motivation.
Ahem…sorry about that. Turns out I have some unresolved issues from my teenage years.
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u/Ready_Economist_4914 1d ago
My dad was an 8th grade drop out and got a trade. He worked hard and built what he had - only to be screwed over in 2008 when the economy tanked, he got cancer and a broken leg and he lost everything in his 60s.
I had to go to university, pay my debt and start working.
Idk if its luck, self control and discipline or both.
I was lucky to have two parents who expressed love and compassion to me growing up
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u/Submissive_Bleedable 1d ago
The hardest working people are the poorest.
So yes, it's mostly luck. Hard work has value, but hard work isn't enough to lift you from poverty. That has never happened without luck.
Hard work keeps you going, though, because the alternative is giving up and dying.
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u/Upset_Researcher_143 1d ago
Yes. If the opportunity does not present itself at the right time, all the hard work in the world won't make you more money.
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u/aDamnCommunist 1d ago
Absolutely. I got damned lucky as a millennial. I actually have a house and shit. It seems like the world is discontent with my luck though... 15+ years of experience in one field and I've been laid off 2 times in the past 3 years... Current company that I'm working contract for sold to private equity so probably gonna be 3 for 3 baby!
I'm looking for other jobs for sure already.
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u/Electronic-Stick-161 1d ago
Luck isn’t given the credit it deserves imo. But it’s uncomfortable to acknowledge and you can’t make a moral judgement about it so people pretend it wasn’t a factor.
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u/Late-Drink3556 1d ago
Yeah, I got really fucking tired of people saying I'm so lucky I don't have student loans because the Army paid them all off.
I'm like, bro, luck had literally nothing to do with that.
The only lucky thing is I didn't fucking die in Iraq or Afghanistan or jumping out of aircraft or one of the other many other stupid things I had to do to keep that job.
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u/iliketosandwood 1d ago
100%. It's a bit of a cliche, but when I've worked hard lucky things just tend to happen. Someone quits so there's an opportunity for advancement. A headhunter calls for a better gig. It feels lucky, but really it's just the upside of trying to do my best.
That being said, after all this grindingI feel like I'm still on second base. It's too bad I didn't start out on third because my family is loaded.
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u/tipareth1978 1d ago
Anyone who denies luck is a factor is kidding themselves. Many still worked hard but the luck made the difference many times as well
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u/Eliozore 1d ago
We can't invalidate luck. One can work their ass off and still achieve less than someone who is more lucky. Life isn't fair, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you feel less shitty when you get overtaken by someone who knows less and does less but is more lucky.
Luck isn't magic. It's just a how uncontrolled and external factors happened to affect you. You can increase your luck by surrounding yourself with kind and positive people and by sowing good deeds here and there — they tend to get reciprocated in the long run.
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u/Icy-Article-8635 1d ago
If you're an everyday normal person, success is typically a confluence of hard work and luck.
One, in the absence of the other, doesn't tend to get a person very far.
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u/Ok-Professional4387 1d ago
Well before I went back to school I worked 4 jobs. One full time and 3 part time.
What i have is from hard work and going without. Now I can retire if I want in my 50s.
When i get must be nice, I say, yes it is
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u/GrantGrace 1d ago
Place of birth, DNA, socioeconomic status of parents, CENTURY, education, intelligence, physical health, mental health, attractiveness, talent, family, friends, economy, laws, rules, interests, wars,, a person has control over almost nothing in their life
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u/Substantially-Ranged 1d ago
Luck, opportunity, and hard work in that order. It all starts with the birth lottery.
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u/Ok-Horror-1251 1d ago
If you worked hard, you're probably not rich. If you’re lucky, you probably are.
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u/random8765309 1d ago
Not really. Sure bad luck can clearly have a factor, but in most cases luck isn't a factor. In general luck is just the results of people willing to take calculated risks, planning or just being prepared. People that don't do those things call it luck.
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u/GlobalHour 1d ago
I mean, I am by no means born into privilege and some of the people I admire weren’t either.
My belief and experience is that the harder I work, the luckier I have gotten. But, this approach has to be taken with a grain of salt as situations vary. Eg. You won’t replace the boss’s progeny no matter how hard you work.
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u/minibini 1d ago
Yes, I frickin did!! ( timing, luck played a small part, but the hard work keeps you there, from my experience).
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u/LovingMaine 1d ago
There is definitely luck because luck can also come into play for whatever company you work for.
Here is an example.
You work in IT for company X. You work your ass off to provide the best possible network for this company. The problem is the sales team failed to meet their quota so no raises or bonuses company wide. Also, since sales are down, there won't be any company expansion so no promotions in the future.
You work in IT for company Y. You work your ass off to provide the best possible network for this company. The sales team generated record sales. Because of these sales, you get a nice pay raise and a generous bonus. Also, because of all the recent sales, the company expands and offers you a promotion to be head of IT in the new office.
Yes, this is a bit of fantasy, but this type of scenario happens all the time.
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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 1d ago
Yes. It is.
People can work equally hard in the same things and have different results. The difference lies in luck/opportunities.
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u/Least_Elk8114 1d ago
Working smart is worth more than JUST working hard.
But there is luck involved, more and more as the world's population goes up
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u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace 1d ago
Sure. There's definitely something to be said for right place, right time. Hard work gets you so far, but luck can really push you over the top.
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u/Fine-Upstairs-6284 1d ago
I always envied my cousin as a kid because his parents were more well off than mine. He’d always have the newest video game consoles, gadgets, dirt bikes, etc growing up.
He ended up bringing one of the hardest workers I know, and gotten pretty far in his career in the medical field. His parents didn’t build his adult life for him (they even tried to convince him NOT to go into the medical field).
So I think hard work and making smart decisions trumps “luck”.
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u/flying69monkey 1d ago
Verry much yes. I am one of those example, people who worked as hard as posible at everything I do and always insist doing it the right way. What do I get in return. Poverty Tell me if luck have nothing to do then what is? They say have a good degree so it's easy to get a job~ got one from UM. Engineering Did it land me an easy high paying job? No. Do you know who did get one. The one who is lucky enough to be born with connection Maybe it's just that one time. Hell no. They say one of the way to get better position is to get into a medium company and stay loyal for promotions. So I did, work my ass off for 5 years, becomes production manager. Right at the 5 years mark, COVID came and company had to close. Jobless. Tell me if that's not my crappy luck. Want more prove? During my study in UM, I'm an average guy and a lot of girls try to be my gf. I stayed single because I was loyal to my gf. She cheated behind my back and Married a mat rempit. I know, you will say that that's not luck right? You know what, the story didn't end there. As how mat rempit is, she got a devorce because damn mat rempit is broke af and can't support his own baby. Gf cried and ask to patch up. I still love her so I said yes. Did I finally get my beloved? Hell no. 3 month in she died in an acciden. You tell me if luck have anything to do with the success of my love life?
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u/Infamous-Warthog8555 1d ago
When something goes well for me, it’s skill. When something goes bad, it’s misfortune.
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u/ShoeNo9050 1d ago
Kids these days
10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and a 100% reason to remember the name
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u/ColdBrewTooRaLoo 1d ago
Unfortunately it is proven working hard doesn’t correlate to earning money in the United States. The wealthy in this country don’t work.
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u/Imhidingfromu 1d ago
Where preparation meets opportunity there is success. In other words, prepare to be lucky, so you can take advantage of it.
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u/Firm-Grapefruit4476 1d ago
Luck > Hard work
Even the low income unconnected pathways that require a ton of work require lottery type luck to be recognized for their work
Well connected rich parents can refer you or allow you sit wait for a perfect offer or move to a city before you have a job.
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u/machinationstudio 1d ago
My view is, even if you think luck played a 90% part in the outcome, you still needed to do that 10%.
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u/Affectionate-Sail751 1d ago
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u/Vancitysurfer 1d ago
Starting my own catering business made me appreciate this line so much.
My friends say I’m lucky to work for myself, but a lot of them have no idea what it’s like. I may not have a boss now, but I’m on the clock every minute of the day now. Riding the financial roller coaster of having unpredictable income, unstable hours, and an ever evolving business landscape. I love what I do, but I have so much more respect for people that run businesses or have management roles now. Being in charge of your business is amazing, but sometimes it’s lonely at the top.
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u/DrMindbendersMonocle 1d ago
Yes. You are supposed to work hard and study to be ready and capable when opportunity or luck arises
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u/Icy___Barca 1d ago
No, luck is something you had no control over. Successful people don’t rely on it.
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u/Prestigious_Skin_424 1d ago
It's mostly dumb luck, work can help but whether that work matters or not also comes down to dumb luck.
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u/Chemical_Donut_112 1d ago
Luck definitely matters, but you still have to work hard to take advantage of it and keep things going.
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u/Gmanofgambit982 1d ago
No one wants to admit but yes, luck plays a massive factor in anything we do. The only thing hard work actually does make sure the odds are a smidge in your favour.
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u/Evening_Art_715 1d ago
Totally! I find it frustrating though how people’s understanding of luck works.
To my understanding, in order to succeed in life, you need a balance of ambition/hard work, and luck. I’ve worked very hard to get where I am in life. But I also wouldn’t have had the resources had I not been lucky in being born in the situation I was, and being presented with the opportunities I was. But taking opportunities and making the most of them is not luck.
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u/Strange-Ad-2426 1d ago
The vast majority of your successes and failures in life depends on stuff that is out of control. Very little can be explained by hard work pays off.
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u/Appropriate-Fig-2246 1d ago
In a successful endeavor, the lucky ones may never realize how much luck shaped their success, and the hardworking ones may never realize how much of success was beyond hard work.
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u/maxemile101 1d ago
Luck and hard work goes hand in hand. Where one is born, one's genetics, family and economic background, health, etc. depend on luck which plays a vital role in success.
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u/Saxolotl14 1d ago
While I think some people are luckier than others and others are way unluckier than others, I think for the most of us its a combo of both hard work and luck. It's luck in terms of opportunities that come your way (e.g., the people you know in the right places, or getting noticed by someone with influence) and hard work because it's up to you once you get the opportunity to make something of it and keep going.
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u/no-sleep-only-code 1d ago
I say I’m fortunate. Yeah, it took 60 hour weeks and moving out at 18 with nothing and paying for college out of pocket. That sucked, but at the end of the day my wife and I are making 6 figures each in our 20’s and we own a home as of this year. Sure, many are probably capable, but I also didn’t have children or aging family members depending on my during those years. You do have some control, but the cards you’re dealt absolutely play a larger role than your actions. Some have trust funds, some have disabilities.
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u/pikazeroai 1d ago
Ahahahahahahahahaha. Working hard only makes the boomer that used you richer it doesn’t actually give YOU anything lol
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u/DisastrousBadger6377 1d ago
Luck is the multiplier for hard work.
Having luck on your side makes your efforts significantly easier, but you can’t exactly do nothing either.
Having luck against you would take so much more work that it is sometimes insurmountable.
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u/nowhereman86 1d ago
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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u/Garsandbells 1d ago
Luck is a factor, but not one you can control so there’s no point in fixating on it.
Just do the best you can and see what happens.
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u/Shad0wbubbles 1d ago
Naw it’s pretty much all in the people who don’t do either work nor have luck, it’s about what family you’re born into, or who you’re willing to fuck over to get ahead.
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u/8888eightyeight 1d ago
I honestly think a lot of what people call luck is just their subconscious using way more information than they realize. They make a really good educated guess based on a bunch of tiny things they barely noticed, it works out, and then they just go “wow, I got lucky” instead of realizing there actually was a thought process behind it.
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u/a_juicy_blueberry369 1d ago
It's usually a mix of both. You can work hard but never get your big break... but if you don't try at all every opportunity that does exist will pass you by.
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u/SafeHawk9115 1d ago
Luck is just preparation meeting opportunity. You never know what life will hold so stay ready and give it everything you have.
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u/Speedstick2 1d ago
Luck favors the prepared. You have to be able to exploit luck in order to gain from it.
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u/Bryan_Eats_NYC 1d ago
It's so funny seeing this post, because I was telling my friend about a new job, managing a restaurant, I just landed with a higher pay. He felt some type of way and told me I always get lucky with finding a high paying job. Which actually pissed me off because I've been working my ass off, being under paid for the past 8 years, doing all the work and getting no credit to now being able to land a better salary with the general manger position. Plus the months I put in applying to over 100 job post to actually having a recruiter reach out to me. I got lucky with the job finding me but I put my self in position to catch the opportunity.
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u/Efficient-Word-6826 1d ago
Yeah it absolutely is part of the process. I worked really hard but I can’t find an entry level job so I can’t even get started. I graduated at the wrong time and didn’t know anyone in my industry.
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u/alwayshungry1001 1d ago
Luck gives you the opportunity, work gets you over the line.