Most of your success is more due to chance, and your environment, than your effort.
I have been lowkey studying business success for the last few decades, and you are absolutely correct… the vast majority of “success” is directly traceable to luck. Luck of opportunity, luck of connections, luck of having born into the right family with massive intergenerational wealth, and just plain dumb luck. But it’s almost always statistical probability. You just ignore all the snake eyes in your life in favour of the nat 20s.
Now, that’s not to say hard work doesn’t assist to a degree… a strong skill set, talent, and grit do allow people to better leverage existing opportunities, but those opportunities are almost 100% luck-based.
I have been lowkey studying business success for the last few decades, and you are absolutely correct… the vast majority of “success” is directly traceable to luck. Luck of opportunity, luck of connections, luck of having born into the right family with massive intergenerational wealth, and just plain dumb luck. But it’s almost always statistical probability. You just ignore all the snake eyes in your life in favour of the nat 20s.
Now, that’s not to say hard work doesn’t assist to a degree… a strong skill set, talent, and grit do allow people to better leverage existing opportunities, but those opportunities are almost 100% luck-based.