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Success more about luck or skill?

Huh March 24, 2021 at 15:43 2775 views 13 comments
Is success more influenced by luck or skill?

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180 Proof March 24, 2021 at 16:33 #514205
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.
Jack Cummins March 24, 2021 at 16:57 #514210
Reply to Huh
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.
Pinprick March 24, 2021 at 21:42 #514277
Reply to Huh

I’d go with luck, because luck even determines what skills we have, at least to an extent, via DNA.
Sir2u March 26, 2021 at 02:43 #514714
Reply to Huh Before I answer, could you give us a definition of luck.
Huh March 26, 2021 at 15:40 #514868
Reply to Sir2u Randomness a lack of control
Pantagruel March 26, 2021 at 15:46 #514871
Quoting Huh
Is success more influenced by luck or skill?


What is your definition of "success"?

Quoting Sir2u
?Huh Before I answer, could you give us a definition of luck.


I think luck is pretty unambiguous, sums up in the "right place at the right time" chesnut, no?
Huh March 26, 2021 at 15:50 #514874
Reply to Pantagruel success, anything you want to achieve.
Huh March 26, 2021 at 16:00 #514880
Reply to 180 Proof Ability to discern truth and ability to distort it?
Pantagruel March 26, 2021 at 16:30 #514902
Quoting Huh
success, anything you want to achieve.


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.
Ying March 26, 2021 at 21:08 #515114
There are many skillful people who go unnoticed but how many lucky people are bereft of success?
Sir2u March 27, 2021 at 02:31 #515254
Quoting Pantagruel
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.
180 Proof March 27, 2021 at 21:13 #515553
Success?

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." ~Cormac McCarthy

:death: :flower:
Sir2u March 28, 2021 at 01:31 #515636
Not sure where I saw this but it makes one think.

" 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"