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Originally Posted by GGG
Why are people uncomfortable with saying they were lucky?
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Because 'luck' and all of the implications minimize what actually goes into being successful.
It seems as though you consider success to be like a single event, like flipping a light switch at exactly the right (lucky) moment. Instead, I view success as the culmination of hundreds, or thousands of opportunities that the individual was able to seize and leverage into the next... there is no single event that stands on its own without the occurrence of others before it... That's a heck of a lot of luck.
Let's forget about corporate success for a second... Neil deGrasse Tyson is successful - would you say he's lucky? Michael Jordan is successful - is he just lucky?