Perhaps, you've met people who are constantly talking about
something so-called luck. Regularly, we say we missed a chance or got a chance.
Is there really something like luck?
How can you be lucky and succeed?
Why some people do nothing to succeed? Where did they bring all
that good luck from?
"I'm miserable", "I'm lucky" and ... maybe you
heard these sentences from your friends or family! Those who explain: "My
parents and my family are so…!", " I also was not lucky from
economics point of view!" "I missed the exam because the questions
were very difficult this year", "Unfortunately, my wife is selfish!
"," My kids did not miss me! "," In the workplace, the manager
discriminates! "and more and more excuses.
Although giving a blame for luck, it gives us pseudo peace for a
moment, but it also brings us the power to change our fate and situation. Taking
all powers away from ourselves and giving to an environment and others may
indicate that we have chosen irresponsibility and escaping from responsibility
as the main life style.
We need to be accountable. As long as we blame traffic jam for having
delay or blame destiny for laziness and failure of our plans, we need to change
ourselves and accept responsibility. Keep remember that there may be problems,
but it is our will which push us to overcome them and think about them. If you sit
around and do nothing just looking for luck, you'll be the unluckiest.
Psychologists believe that everyone's luck is his thought. If the
person is positive or optimistic, opportunities and good conditions will arise for
him and, if pessimistic, leads to bad situations.
Having or not having chance and luck depends on you, means that,
when you feel lucky, you're influencing the environment and the world, and
simply giving positive energy to the periphery and the decision you intend to
do.
We must take advantage of the experiences and being open minded in
case of encounter the events and problems. In this case, you are also a lucky
person who others try to discover the secret of your success. In this way, our
thoughts, feelings and beliefs will propagate energy in the world that leads us
to a lucky one.
In fact, if you believe in your mind that you succeed, it will be
the same, and you will be lucky just as easily. On the contrary, when you think
you're unlucky, you always get misfortune. That means you will have what you
believe in, because your energy influences the world. This energy is also
transmitted to others and for example, the same feeling that you have to
someone, he/she has the same feeling to you.
Perhaps, it's interesting to know that psychologists believe that
successful people do not believe in luck, because good luck comes to those who
are ready, which gives them opportunities. They focus on good things and develop
skills, in this case they are able to absorb positive forces. Sometimes, bad
things go wrong even for those we know them lucky, but they find opportunities among
the problems, and win them with hardworking. So, it's better to think we are lucky
from here onward.
Such thought, if does not have any effect, at least has the
benefit of giving us a better morale to continue living, so that in many
situations we will have better self-confidence. Therefore, success is neither
accidental nor luck, rather must have a goal and recognize the opportunities.
In order to not suffer from your presumptive misfortune, it's better
to follow bellow pattern to deal with the issues:
- Define and prioritize your problems, then specify one of the
most important ones.
- Write down all solutions coming to your mind to solve a problem.
- Consult with friends, acquaintances, and experts who firstly have
experience and knowledge, secondly, are trustworthy and reliable. Write down
their solution as well.
- Write down your abilities and facilities and others who are
ready to help you.
- List the limitations, weaknesses, and probability of failure in
each of the ways you've written.
- Choose the solution which has most probability to success
considering your capabilities.
- Identify the steps for this solution and consider the time for
each step. Furthermore, identify actions for each step and be ready to do so.
- When you are struggling with problem to solve it, focus on that and
encourage yourself to go forward. Please do not measure your success with your
goal, but measure your success with the effort. For example, if you are
studying for the exam, the amount of the effort, planning, and continuity of
your work is important, but you should expect yourself to be proportionate to
the amount of these efforts.
- On the way to success, measure the progress of your plan
continuously and overcome weaknesses. The flexibility of the plan is a great
step towards the goal.
If you take an action according to the problem-solving process,
you will soon find out that most of what you called as bad luck has been
laziness, disorganization,
lack of consultation, inaccuracy, lack of effort and perseverance, extreme
pleasure and ambition.
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Are you lucky? Why?
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What do you think about luck?
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Does luck exist from your point of view?
Comments
I don't believe in energy transfers, as well as other forces that can affect my life. I use this word when I gain something because some improbable events occured.
It's easier to say you are lucky that something happened than to describe all the implications and possibilities. I'm impressed you managed to write the whole article about it :)
2. I think that luck is either there or not, most often it is when it is not expected;)
3. Yes, there is, but some call luck - "guardian angel", which helps to get out of bad situations
What do i think about luck? In some ways, it is all just a game. When gamblers feels lucky, they believe they can get that random chance, but their ability to control overcome natural chaos. I don't know what do you mean, but definitely luck exists.
But there is also an entirely different kind of lucky events. Those which happen to the prepared. And here I agree with the article - this is kind of luck that helps people to succeed in life. When the right person has the right skills and mindset at the right time.
I like the bus stop metaphor for this. If you are prepared: you have a bus ticket, you know where you want to go, you checked which bus will take you there, then it's just a matter of time when the right bus will come and drive you towards your goal.
But if you don't know where to go, you don't have your ticket - you will get on the bus which goes in random direction. Maybe a ticket inspector will catch you and you'll pay for not having the ticket, maybe you'll end up in a wrong neighbourhood or just get off the bus one stop too late. Those events people call unlucky. And then they observe those who were prepared and got where they wanted and call the lucky.
I like those advises at the end of the article. Be prepared, look for solutions, know your limits. Be prepared, your "lucky" moment will come, inevitably.
I think that the most important factor at becoming successful is working hard, but on the other hand you can die someday in car accident so yeah there is something like luck ( or lack of it).
If we are talking about some strange situations when everything goes wrong but accidentally something mysterious happens that turns the situation to your advantage. I just simply call it the balance. Everything in life should be balanced. Don’t try to find any hidden sense.
We are not able to fully control our lifes- we are dependent on many things. And those things are changing, sometimes in a way that helps us and sometimes not. And that what I consider luck/bad luck.
As the author of this post told above, it is possible to boost it when you prepared before doing something. It is true that doing stuff can easily give the winning position without relying on luck. However, there are always times when everything can go wrong even if you are 100% ready. It is important to understand that you cannot always win every time and be ready to lose because of luck a few time in order to achieve your goal.
Yes. Yes, it is. The bus stop metaphor is the best explanation of it.
I think that luck is not only some magical phenomenon that helps us to succeed, but it is also our primal strength to choose what is best for us.
In my opinion, luck exists. Every successful people need luck to accomplish their dreams.
What a beautiful definition of luck !
Only chance at winning the lottery can be defined, what definition you can not have in this case:
A person born in Africa and in a small village, and a person in the royal family of England?
We do not choose our place and time of birth, as well as our parents . What is the definition for this example?
Trying to achieve a goal and the quicker conditions to get it can be affected by what's happening that we can call it a chance.
This sentence may be correct in some of our life examples. But if, for example, you were a child who was born to a country that is now in a war-torn country, would you still believe in it?
You do not believe in luck, but do not deny it in the last sentence and you believe it exists.
Luck does not just mean gambling and a lottery, it can eliminate a risk or disaster.
For example, your mistake on the crime that you did not commit is imprisoned and after 10 years the judge will realize his mistake. Is not it bad luck?
"Be prepared, look for solutions, know your limits" is the best thing to do is to take advantage of our moments of life.
In your opinion, everything that happens during human life depends on luck?
Is this a conjuncture definition for the above example ?
Some of the things that happen in human life will affect their whole life.
2. I think that happiness in life is very important, without it, many people would not have what is or even three-quarters of the world, which is why it is necessary for success in life.
3. From my point of view, happiness is an indispensable part of the human being and I think that even everyone who smiles once a week is lucky
For example imagine that you have an exam coming up. You did some digging online the day before and found the answers to the mentioned test. You learned them all by heart and when you showed up the next day for an exam you found out that there will be multiple groups. Right now your mark entirely depends on which group you will be given. You do not have much control over this situation and with time you have even less. There is not much you can do in this situation in 30 minutes before an exam starts and there are even less option when you are halfway through the exam.
There are of course many precautions you can take to avoid such problems. The more time you have the more options there are. Of course you should not consider luck as a viable option, but rather as a pleasant surprise. I never depend on luck and this point of view may be the reason why I consider myself a lucky person.
I do think that luck exists - though for me, luck simply means factors beyond our control which we cannot predict with the information we have, which makes them effectively random, even if they are not neccessarily so. I do, however, also agree that thinking about luck isn't really something that you should do if you want to be successful - after all, if you can't do anything to affect your luck, then there's no point in dwelling on it. It's better to simply focus on doing your best and on looking for opportunities no matter the situation, and eventually you will always reach success.
When it comes to luck i feel like its perceived differently by ppl one will consider himself lucky by having certain environmental things align for him, on the other hand some of us would needed a material confirmation of their luck (like gambling). If we want to define luck for me it would be every non material thing that eased my work, made me happy, turned out great in the end.
From my point of view luck does exist in some form and every now and then i get to see it shine on me.
A lucky person can be called a person who won a million in a lottery, or a person who has a healthy and loving family. The concepts of happiness are many, it depends on us what we have in life and do we help him in some way.
Luck is a measure of your success.
For example if you play lottery and win, you’re lucky one because usually it is almost impossible. Usually people would say, you’re the lucky person, if you have to much success in your life. It all comes down to an attitude. Did you work hard enough to get it?
If you treat luck or bad luck as a coincidence of all little things that happened before it doesn’t exist but if treated as a measure of success it is exist
2) I think luck is something like, when every signs on the heaven shows that something bad would happen, but on finally you are on winner position.
3) Yes luck is exist, but it's rather occasionally character, i don't believe that we can have a lucky on every step.
Some time ago I met a REALLY lucky person. If he’s late to the train, the train will be late too. If he’s not into going to university today, the lecturer will cancel classes. I see his luckiness everyday and it’s impresses me. But maybe it’s just about our attitude and if we taking our “luckiness” for granted.
Anyway we’re not controlling our life in every aspect. So if you’re won a lottery, we probably can call it luck, because you didn’t put any effort on that and chances to win was extremely small. So I think we can say that yes, luck exists.
There are a lot of people who suffers from natural disasters and they've lost everything.
Hmm I think there is no definition of luck, I think it's just a term for good events which happen to people.
It is hard to tell if luck exists, I really don't have opinion on that.
For me, luck is just a metaphor for happiness. We call it luck when we i.e. survived a dangerous situation. But is there really anything that saved us? It was just a coincidence.
From my point of view, luck exists only in people's mind. Everyone has his or her own "vision" of luck. Life is just a series of coincidences. Sometimes we end on a good position, but it can also happen that we end badly.
But still it is a really interesting topic to discuss, however it is like debating on if there is a life after death. No one has the answer. On the one hand I've seen tenths or even hundreds of examples when people just got luck. Im not talking about their success but it is more about small things like finding money in streets or choosing correct answer on some test.
On the other hand maybe it just my perception. Put it other way, it is just what I want to see. What is missing in my life.
Also I liked the comment of Kyrylo Aleksandrov. I'm sure that there is a point in his reasoning. Perhaps there is some 'probability distribution functions' which defines who borns in reach or destitute family, in which country etc.
For sure there are some things in our lives which we not able to control. However when it comes to success, I thing it's more about person's desire, persistence, aspiration. Of course there will be hard time. There will be potholes. And as the author said it is all about attitude because dealing with difficulties makes you strong and experienced humane.
But maybe I, as a realistic person, and sometimes even pessimistic, believe in luck. In the end, it could have turned out much worse than what had already happened. So do not forget about it when you think that you are not lucky.
I think it's always worth believing in the best. Thoughts are material.
Yes, I was lucky, because I managed to meet very good people who are willing to help me, but I also try to reciprocate and do not refuse to help if anyone needs it. Not everyone has such acquaintances. Happiness is very difficult. Happiness does not come with luck. Happiness needs to be built. All in your hands.
According to that definition, I agree that luck shouldn’t be considered a legitimate cause of any success or failure. It’s our actions and hard work (and lack of thereof) that affect the outcome.
Anyone who believes in good or bad luck does so in order to escape thinking of real causes and consequences. It’s far easier to think you didn’t pass an exam because of bad luck and not because you didn’t learn hard enough.
I think yes, because I live a quite happy life and I'm glad that I could make it as it is. I just have to think - it is luck, or hard work got me here? I think both, because without some luck I think that some thing would have gone in different ways. However, when I'm thinking about some situations in my life I'm sure that luck exists.
2- What do you think about luck?
It's fine to believe in it, and sometimes when things are going as they should you just assume that it's luck - that's okay for me. But you can't just trust your luck 100% and do nothing more about it, that's not how it works.
3- Does luck exist from your point of view?
Yes.
I consider luck to be impossible to get as someone had not previously had but at the same time a very valuable artifact.
It is difficult to answer whether luck exists because from a physical point of view, there is no such thing as luck, but
if somebody delves into this topic, he will understand what luck is and how to see it.
But when it comes to the „normal” definition of luck, like winning something etc - few months ago I wanted one of the Adidas boots, but they were very expensive. When I went to the Adidas shop just to see them live, they told me that it’s the last pair and it was my size! What’s more funny - they were discounted by 60% ;).
It helps in some moments in your life to regain your positive attitude to some life situations. It's always good to think about what happened afterward because in most cases you did something extraordinary and overcame all the problems rather than them were solved on their own because of your luck.
I think it does exist, howewer it's not necessary to be a happy human being. We can manipulate our fate and change it whenever we want because we are the most important in our lives not our destiny.
2. I think sometimes people use luck to move responsibility from themselves, but you often have to make your own luck.
3. Yes.
I have a good family, good friends, good work. All in my life go in a good way. But am I lucky? No. I don’t believe in luck, I believe in blessings from God.
The luck for me is nothing else than the gift (‘bless’) from God. I can write a lot of about my opinion, but I know the question, that everybody asks me, after whole my thoughts. Why a lot of people is not Christians but have a lot of ‘luck’ in their life. The answer is - because God is love and He loves everyone.
Does luck exist from your point of view?
No.