Comment by NotGMan
3 days ago
If he wouldn't he wouldn't have make it.
You have to take the risk in your life or you're gonna be stuck where you are.
Was he lucky? Perhaps.
Would he make it if he wouldn't risk it and put in all the work that he need with nothing to show if he would fail?
He would not.
I think we're not in disagreement that both play a role. But maybe not in how much each contributes. My claim is that luck is often heavily underappreciated. That's not surprising - it's hard to measure, and it feels less good to attribute your success to something outside your control like random chance rather than your hard work, dedication, skill, smarts, whatnot. Nobody gets praise for luck, and ultimately success stories are often going after praise if they are honest with themselves. Which is fine, but don't discount the luck factor.
Just being born a white heterosexual male in a developed country somewhere between the 70s and the 2000s puts you so vastly ahead of everybody else that even if you don't tick all those boxes the luck factor is enormous. Few people openly appreciate that.