Successful people seem to cultivate a skillset for 'getting' lucky (i.e. being always ready to seize opportunities when they happen upon them at the right time and in the right place). Exactly what that skillset is? Let me know if you find out.
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Success may also be an attitude of mind towards achievement and, this involves the basis from which we decide whether we are successful or not.
Hmm. Doesn't that seem to be a kind of task-oriented or episodic definition? Whereas "success" usually connotes ongoing and in-the-balance or cumulative achievement in a variety of different types of tasks.
I think luck is pretty unambiguous, sums up in the "right place at the right time" chesnut, no?
No. I usually define luck as the collision of time, location and circumstance, but it includes good and bad types. For someone driving south while a drunk is driving north could mean that bad luck, an accident, occurs because he is in the right place at the right time.
" The man thought that he was the luckiest guy in the world when he married his high school sweetheart. They had 20 years of marriage as they both got chubby.
Then he went to the school's 25 reunion and found out that the girl that had a crush on him but he had rejected because she came from a poor family. She had become a multi-millionaire and looked as though she had only aged a couple of years.
And she had stayed single waiting for mister right to come along"
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Success may also be an attitude of mind towards achievement and, this involves the basis from which we decide whether we are successful or not.
I’d go with luck, because luck even determines what skills we have, at least to an extent, via DNA.
What is your definition of "success"?
Quoting Sir2u
I think luck is pretty unambiguous, sums up in the "right place at the right time" chesnut, no?
Hmm. Doesn't that seem to be a kind of task-oriented or episodic definition? Whereas "success" usually connotes ongoing and in-the-balance or cumulative achievement in a variety of different types of tasks.
No. I usually define luck as the collision of time, location and circumstance, but it includes good and bad types. For someone driving south while a drunk is driving north could mean that bad luck, an accident, occurs because he is in the right place at the right time.
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." ~Cormac McCarthy
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" The man thought that he was the luckiest guy in the world when he married his high school sweetheart. They had 20 years of marriage as they both got chubby.
Then he went to the school's 25 reunion and found out that the girl that had a crush on him but he had rejected because she came from a poor family. She had become a multi-millionaire and looked as though she had only aged a couple of years.
And she had stayed single waiting for mister right to come along"