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coffeeteaandme) wrote2010-04-13 05:05 pm
coffeeteaandme) wrote2010-04-13 05:05 pm
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Writer's Block: I can walk under ladders
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I like this question. My family says I'm lucky, as in 'I have a lucky star', usually by way of saying I should be dead now. I insist that I don't take crazy chances. Anyone who ever sailed with me knows I was a staid, boring coward who grabbed a harness whenever I went aloft.
I think luck is a skill, a knack for juggling the odds in your head with the things you've noticed. I think this skill also allows you to use facts that you haven't consciously noticed, or even things you don't consciously think, to calculate odds, and take chances or opportunities that others might not. As some rich guy once said, "I'm a lucky man. The harder I work, the luckier I get." Maybe that doesn't seem to connect with what I say, but it does. Most of what people call hard work is invisible: it's the 'dedication' part - the keeping your eyes, and mind, on what you want. When I'm successful, or fortunate, it's usually traceable (by me anyway) back to that.
But I might just be talking through my hat.
I like this question. My family says I'm lucky, as in 'I have a lucky star', usually by way of saying I should be dead now. I insist that I don't take crazy chances. Anyone who ever sailed with me knows I was a staid, boring coward who grabbed a harness whenever I went aloft.
I think luck is a skill, a knack for juggling the odds in your head with the things you've noticed. I think this skill also allows you to use facts that you haven't consciously noticed, or even things you don't consciously think, to calculate odds, and take chances or opportunities that others might not. As some rich guy once said, "I'm a lucky man. The harder I work, the luckier I get." Maybe that doesn't seem to connect with what I say, but it does. Most of what people call hard work is invisible: it's the 'dedication' part - the keeping your eyes, and mind, on what you want. When I'm successful, or fortunate, it's usually traceable (by me anyway) back to that.
But I might just be talking through my hat.