Personal Luck Research Paper

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“Determination, hard work and sometime luck”

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity” - a thoughtful statement from Oprah to address a concept, which has been around for the longest time in our industrial age defined by our personal excellence through endless trial and error. If life was a long journey with lots of ups and downs, twists and turns, then we may agree that luck alone would not propel us to cross the finish line.

As someone who has been working in the technical field for a long time and fully aware of the amount of efforts, one has to invest in order to obtain the skills that you need to compete in this rapidly changing technical field. During the course of my career as a senior IT engineer, I was expected to

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