Is it really Luck or something else?
Image via Wikipedia
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to ya! I’ve been thinking about today’s post for many weeks now, as I’ve had reminders going off in my Google Calendar and noticed the upcoming draft post in the Editorial Calendar here on this blog.
Luck is a tricky thing to consider. It seems random, as though the luck came out of nowhere, honoring its recipient with fortune.
No, I don’t believe in leprechauns. I don’t believe the Irish are more lucky than anyone else.
Let me leave you with some quotations that have piqued my thinking about this recently. Most of them come from my latest favorite book for 2011, Dan Miller‘s “No More Mondays” (affiliate link):
- “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca, via The Quotations Page
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay, via No More Mondays p. 216
- “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” — Eric Hoffer, via No More Mondays, p. 225
- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli, via No More Mondays, p. 240
Related articles
- How to Get to Genius (jamesthornton.com)
- Who Are The Experts? (socialmediaexplorer.com)
- Leprechaun Luck (idontknowaboutyoubut.wordpress.com)
- Irish Blessings to all! (swoolard79.wordpress.com)
- Made in America: St. Patrick’s Day (orangemous.wordpress.com)
If you liked this post, click here to share it with your network!
Want to read more like this from Daniel Johnson, Jr.? If you do, subscribe right now!
Get via Email 
Add to Google 
Subscribe to the Feed
Tags: Alan Kay, Benjamin Disraeli, Dan Miller, effort, Eric Hoffer, Google Calendar, luck, Malcolm Gladwell, No More Mondays, opportunity, Outliers, preparation, Seneca, St. Patrick's Day
