You make your own luck. If you never put yourself into a position, you'll almost never get lucky. There's a certain luck involved, absolutely, but that luck is not blind.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson (supposedly)
I agree with you to an extent, but thing like being born in somewhere like North Korea are going to seriously limit the amount of opportunity you can create for yourself.
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You make your own luck. If you never put yourself into a position, you'll almost never get lucky. There's a certain luck involved, absolutely, but that luck is not blind.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson (supposedly)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison.
You miss 100% the shots you don't take. -Wayne Gretzky
Neither this statement nor any variations thereof have ever been found in Thomas Jefferson's writings
https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-a...
Hence the "supposedly", although I suppose it's silly to think I could avoid the famous HN pedantry.
:)
I agree with you to an extent, but thing like being born in somewhere like North Korea are going to seriously limit the amount of opportunity you can create for yourself.