Even people who aren’t very superstitious might cross their fingers for good luck, or knock on wood to ward off bad luck. Which one would you choose?
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Category: Luck
What Traits Have Led To Your Success?
Success, in all facets of life, is due to many factors. Thinking about your successes, can you identify just a few traits that led there?
In our culture, the trait of hard work is often praised. This is understandable, because it is something entirely within your control. You can decide how much attention and time you devote toward a project.
And no doubt, hard work is important. Of course, there is also the saying, “Work smarter, not harder.” This would suggest outside the box thinking, perhaps, is valuable.
The list of possible traits a long one, with possible contradictions.
Perhaps you find success due to the high quality of people you surround yourself with. Or you have always made it a point to be early for every meeting. Saying yes might lead to new opportunities; setting boundaries by saying no could be important for some.
Honesty, as they say, is the best policy, and maybe you agree. Being well connected can open many doors. So can being generous with your money and/or time. But looking out for yourself — if not you, then who? — might lead to personal advancement.
And then there are things completely out of your control, which could be lumped together as “luck”. Perhaps success is little more than being in the right place at the right time.
Consider the times you have had success, whether in your personal or professional life. Can you identify particular traits that come up again and again? If so, what might you do to play up to your strengths?
And if the answer is no, what might that say about succeeding in life?
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Luck Or Hard Work?
Which is more useful for getting ahead: a healthy dose of luck, or hard work? Which has played a bigger part in your life?
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Luck Or Hard Work?
7 Or 13?
What Is Luck?
We are all familiar with the concept of luck. It is a fairly simple idea. However, can you actually come up with a definition?
The most basic definition for what luck is would seem to be: “something good happens to you.”
Maybe that is sufficient. In a particular scenario, something can happen. If that something is good, it is good luck; if that something is bad, it is bad luck.
This way of thinking introduces the modifiers “good” and “bad”. Okay then: what are they modifying?
If we accept this idea of good luck is “something good happens”, it would seem the thing being modified is “something happens”. Does that make sense? But then, the one thing that we can be certain of is that something will happen. Things are constantly changing. Things have to happen in order for there to be change. Is everything around us constantly in a state of luck, sometimes good and sometimes bad?
However, sometimes it is the lucky outcome that something *doesn’t* happen. For example, if you fall out of tree (bad luck), you might think it lucky if you didn’t break a bone (good luck).
So now luck is “something does or doesn’t happen”? That seems pretty vague.
The concept of luck also would seem to contain some notion of likelihood. If something is overwhelmingly likely and indeed comes to pass, that would seem to be less lucky than something that is unlikely to happen. Finding a penny is lucky; finding a hundred dollars is less likely, and therefore luckier.
Can you think of an explanation for how you think of the concept of luck?
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