We all know that one person who just seems to rise up the ladder with seemingly effortless ease. We usually refer to them having a horseshoe somewhere in their anatomy. Often we just shake our heads and say “Of course he got the promotion/raise/prize he has always had a horseshoe . . .” Is it really luck or is it really hard work? There are arguments for both.
Luck
They are at the right place at the right time, their name is drawn out of a hat, they hit the lottery, they were just sitting around and a pot of gold fell in their lap. From this list chance plays a major part in luck.
Hard work
They paid attention and networked and did their job exceptionally to be ready when the right place and right time occurred. They worked really hard and garnered more entries so the odds were in their favor.
Luck
Winning the lottery – according to multiple sources on the internet your odds of winning the lottery are 175,223,510 to 1 (if you don’t believe me Google it). So this is pure luck. There is no strategy, there is no way to increase the odds unless you spend a boat load of money, and even then your odds do not change each ticket is still 175,223,510 to 1, you just have more of them with those odds. Also I have heard it is easier to win the lottery if you actually buy lottery tickets your odds go from 0 to 175,223,510 to 1, but at those odds probably foolish too.
If a pot of gold falls in your lap, you will be both lucky and unlucky. Lucky because you have a pot of gold and at $1286 per ounce you could have a small fortune. Unlucky because if a pot of gold fell in your lap you would need its value to pay the doctors’ bills. It only takes 25 pounds of force to break a small bone – think fingers – and gold is heavy. So is the pot, most leprechauns pots are made of iron so you are looking at probably broken legs, a crushed pelvis and if it rolls off you onto the floor broken feet too. Again lucky and unlucky.
Hard work
So let’s recap a lot of luck seems to come with long odds or painful bits. Hard work seems to take time and energy and usually a sense of satisfaction. So while some people seem to have a lot of luck I am thinking it is probably more along the lines of a lot hard work.
I personally would rather work hard for the things I have, I enjoy the sense of achievement I get and the satisfaction of a job well done. Besides, that pot of gold thing just sounds too painful
PS Your odds of winning as a percentage = 0.0000000057%
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