| ▲ | bcrosby95 2 days ago |
| Pointing to luck renders all advice meaningless. |
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| ▲ | jdiff 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Much advice is meaningless, baseless post-mortem correlations from people trying to justify their own success. |
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| ▲ | rexpop 2 days ago | parent [-] | | "Buy more lottery tickets!" | | |
| ▲ | teravor 2 days ago | parent [-] | | no, it's "buy lottery tickets to exclusive lotteries". the ability to enter such lotteries is where success lies. either through connections or ability. | | |
| ▲ | harimau777 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | If you need connections and ability then you are back to luck. | | |
| ▲ | smcg 2 days ago | parent [-] | | those can be cultivated. | | |
| ▲ | harimau777 2 days ago | parent [-] | | To a degree maybe but the degree differs dramatically for different people. To give an extreme, someone with a significant disability growing up in an impoverished family in the middle of nowhere is generally going to have very little opportunity to cultivate connections and ability. |
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| ▲ | rexpop 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | In my metaphor, "lottery winners" is already representing exclusivity. |
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| ▲ | esseph 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Luck can mean opportunity, but doesn't reflect on capability, availability,or outcome. |
