I don’t want you to really just copy and paste what I wrote so, I’m gonna tell you straight up that I am writing my thoughts. Not yours. This should only be an inspiration.
Success. Sacred and as often spoken and heard by many (many: including you and me), is a simple concept, but hard to understand. The science behind it is fairly simple. Just like everything else, it has roots dating back to prehistoric times. Or, if you’re more comfortable with your life being the timeline, then it has roots dating back to lets say four to five years old. When we were four or five, our parents would always reward us when we did something good. Prehistoric humans, when they did something good were also rewarded by forming a tighter bond with their fellow men, which in return the fellow men would help the human if in need. So success, so sacred as it might seem, is put in much simpler terms: a reward. But here’s the tricky part, this isn’t just any reward. Success is a reward in the real world. And unlike doing something good as a small kid and being rewarded solely because of that fact (and and maybe a little bit because your parents are your parents), the real world is full of people who are very much biased. That’s just the hard truth. The real world isn’t the fairest world there is.
This takes us to the grand topic of “to work hard or to wish for luck”. But really to get the answer of this topic, we need to understand what is working hard and what is luck: Working hard is to really do the things you need to do in order to succeed, without using any shortcuts. Luck is being at the right place at the right time. In the real world, this translates into meeting the right people. People who will most definitely help you in succeeding, because they like you.
We’re going to start with the possibility that success depends on luck. Above, I already said that there are a lot of biased people. People who might not want you to succeed because of where your from, or who you are, and all kinds of reasons. I also said luck means that you will meet the right people. People, who are also biased, but biased in that they want you to succeed. Even if your not the brightest. So, connecting all of these points, the answer to the topic is a big fat “Luck”. But breathe for a moment. Stop and think. I’m pretty sure that you have at least one person who didn’t like you at first, but then after you showed that person who you actually are, the person started liking you. And now you guys are on good relations. The reason I am talking about quite possibly the exact incident that you once had is because this one fact has the power to flip the tables entirely. This fact is the variable that all people who believe success depends on luck don’t add in to the equation of “success depends on luck”.
In the real world, just like everything else, people change. If you have a teacher or someone else entirely who isn’t keen on letting you succeed because they don’t like you, you just need to show them what your capable of. And how do you show that? It’s by working hard. Very hard. Cause at the end, when they see what you can accomplish, they will let you succeed.
Still you might think that if you meet the right people thanks to luck, that’s just a short cut to success. But success isn’t a limit. Even when you’ve achieved what your standard of success is today, at that point, you will have another standard of success. But luck runs out fast. Meaning to succeed again, you will need to work, but you wouldn’t be able to because you never did. And that is the start a disastrous fall.
So, what’s the answer to this daunting question? It’s that success depends on hard work. Not luck.
