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One thing I say is that certain people "create" luck by taking more chances and putting themselves in better positions.
How do people determine which chances to take? How do they know which chances are worth taking? How do they put themselves in better positions?
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I guess luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
Basically. I think about life and choices from a statistical standpoint. If you can make it so your odds of success are 1/2 instead of 2/5, you're going to get "lucky" more often than others.
In Pokémon terms, this is like how there are many tournaments right now getting devastated by teams that are so tanky that they have the opportunity to constantly spam OHKO moves like Sheer Cold and Fissure even though these only have 30% hit rates.
They don't do what autists do where every option is carefully examined and the most logical one is chosen. They simply do what they feel like doing. A lot of it's based on emotion. They use other people and relationships to get jobs, etc. It's very status based as well.
The same with any meta, powercreep. In this case it's been forcing people to rely on OHKO moves just to have a chance at taking out certain threats. It has forced people to look back and find some truly unusual picks. Regulation G allows certain restricted Pokémon and yet people are currently getting terrorized by Gloom and Dewgong.
And it's always annoying to see that people can't grasp that the two go hand in hand, they aren't separable. You either get lucky enough for your circumstances to change which in turn, means you get what you want out of it or you don't, it's that simple.
Your are capitalist propaganda machine, you don't need luck to succeed, it is bad strategy, you just set a goal work towards it and then achieve it. Easy
Opportunity is what happens when preparation meets luck. Before landing my current job, I went through several frustrating interview loops at different companies. Each rejection compounded my discouragement. In retrospect, it was luck to get those rejections since I wouldn't have applied for my current job. I don't believe that my luck had anything intrinsically to do with me. The arc of the universe didn't bend toward me to do me a favor. I didn't "make my luck" or any other such wishful thinking. Instead, I happened to be lucky at a moment in time that I also happened to be prepared. Luck is the label that we assign to all the factors that are outside of our control. If we could "make" luck - if we had control over those factors - then it wouldn't be luck at all. Besides, I've been unlucky enough times that it would be delusional to call myself lucky, and there's enough suffering in the world that it would be narcissistic to regard myself as luckier than anyone else.
I like this take, and I want to make clear that when I say "make luck" the undertone is that luck isn't really a thing. There's percent chance, although that's apparently capitalist propaganda, and we can influence the odds of a certain outcome. My point was that what people call "luck" is not really a supernatural phenomenon.
We agree. I would just shift the framing a bit. It's not about influencing luck. It's about reducing the necessity for luck. The more control you have over the outcome, the less you have to play the odds in the first place. If you have complete control, then the odds are 100% and luck isn't a factor.
