“When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.” Do you agree or disagree with the quotation above? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
I strongly believe the more you try, the luckier you are. Success is a combination of hard work, smart work and luck.
First, without hard work, you can’t reach any goal, because for creating anything you must do, nothing happens without efforts. Second, luck is a random variable, which sometimes is with you and sometimes is against you. If you are aware that your attitude will be different. Take as an example Steve Jobs, who always worked and pushed his team to do the best. Not all the products he built were a success. In fact, some of Apple’s creations failed dramatically. However even during the most unlucky times, specifically when he was fired by his board of directors, he never gave up and ended up funding Pixar. Can we say that Steve Jobs was lucky? Definitely no, we can’t. He worked smart, he surrounded himself with people smarter than him and pushed.
Obviously, there are some independent variables that can affect people and success, which we must consider. For people growing up in poverty, or country with poor infrastructure could be a limiting factor. According to Princeton University Research, 40% of the world population lives on less than 2 $per day, clearly, the definition of success for this slice of population is more similar to survival. However, this person fights every day against poverty and the misfortune to raise up in the poor side of the globe.
To conclude, luck can influence us, but especially in developed countries, is a small variable. By the time resilience will always overcome good and bad luck, even though is easier to believe in chance instead to push yourself.
For sure your life is not a lottery ticket.
