About Luck
Luck is NOT Chance!
Although most people use the terms interchangeably, they have very different meanings. Chance is defined as: “the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled”.
Luck on the other hand is defined as: “the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person’s life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities”.
Chance is something that is just as likely to happen to any one person at any time. Luck, good or bad is what you make of it.
If everyone in a group buys one raffle ticket in a closed raffle, without any outside circumstances, one person will win by chance. If a person buys more raffle tickets, he increases his luck and will have more chances to win. Luck is affected by the actions we take or don’t take.
Richard Wiseman, an expert on “luck” gives the example of an apple orchard. If you go into an orchard full of apples, on the first day you will be able to go anywhere and pick as many apples as you want. If you keep going to the same place to get your apples, eventually there will be no more and you will have to move on to another part of the orchard. The same goes for luck. By doing the same activities every day, you are using up any luck that those activities may offer. At a certain point, if you want to get lucky, you will have to do something else. Just taking a different route to work will offer you new opportunities that you didn’t have along your regular route because they were used up or you just became immune to them. If you don’t believe that you can miss something that is staring you in the face, watch this video.
I have spoken to numerous successful individuals who mentioned that their success came from hard work and a little “luck”. I have also spoken to many unsuccessful people who consider their lack of success “bad luck”. I knew that there had to be more to it so I researched luck and learned that you can make your own luck, you just have to learn how.
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