Life isn’t fate, and it isn’t merit, it’s primarily luck: the odds against of you even being here far outweigh the number of atoms in the universe. Your life is similarly long odds if you consider how many events had to occur for you to be the person you are today.
The most blatant & frustrating example of the Lucktocracy is your career: it works in one of 2 ways: either 10,000 people could do the same job but only 1 gets it, a situation many are familiar with; or only 1 person could do the job but it took 10,000 lucky breaks for them to get it; examples are Teddy Roosevelt, Steve Jobs & Elon Musk. The myth that you can plan what you’re going to do with your life is a delusion, akin to thinking you’ll be able to pay your rent every month with lottery ticket winnings.
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Martin Hash
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