Does luck have anything to do with success?
As we all know, success requires competitive abilities in many areas but I believe luck is also a vital aspect to people’s success which some people may ignore.
People who believe luck is useless may pay too much attention to the matching ability of successful in the society but ignore that some people have the same ability or talent but cannot achieve the same success. People prefer to find a consequent reason for each event. The biggest group I know, which believe all the success or suffering you experience have causal relationship, is Baptism. However, when mathematicians look into the reasons that can explain this common phenomenon of successful people, they find out many things that happen unpredictable. And we call the good side, luck, which is play an important role here.
One example to demonstrate the effect of luck to people’s success is what kind of mentors or teachers we meet in our life. A nice teacher will accelerate our learning process and create life-time benefits for us. Whereas, an inefficient teacher may lead us to losing precious learning opportunities and indirectly decide whether we can success in the future or not. People who believe luck is useless may state that hard work can get rid of the influence of that bad teacher. However, we should bear in mind that when someone need to work harder to achieve the same things as others, their effort may work and may not, the only certain thing is that luck already works in his or her life.
Other examples include unexpected man-made or natural disasters such as the Economic Great Depression, car accident, earthquakes, etc. Those unlucky people may come across enormous damages during those disasters and lose their chance to succeed.
Although I admit the important role of luck in humans’ success, I insist that luck itself is of no hope, but a randomly thing. We should accept the fact that there are things we cannot control in our life and we try our best to work on those we can control no matter we are luck or not.
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