Importance Of Luck And Opportunity

Decent Essays
Register to read the introduction… Why does one man succeed and another fail? Is it luck or are there definite reasons? Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. People who rely on luck tend to believe that they can get luck without preparation. I deeply doubt their thoughts because even if people get the luck, they will lose it if they are not capable to deal with it. In many cases of people who win lottery, they meet the luck by chance and win a great deal of fortune. However, they splurge the money easily for extravagances, expensive mansions, and gambling. Their lack of financial management usually causes their bad end. Thus, no matter how lucky people are, they still need good sense and preparation to handle the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The turn of the wheel of fortune, while it can be influenced, decides the fates of many of the characters in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. There is, in fact, not a day within the book’s ten days that goes by without a story being told where fortune plays a role. There are characters whose bad fortune turns good, good turns bad, and turns bad then good again. Even within the stories, fortune is often explicitly called on, showing that its hand is not invisible. In fact, often enough one’s fortune is changed, usually for the better, by using their own cleverness.…

    • 647 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    What factors determine someone's level of future success? Types of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in an individual's life is what many people believe is what causes people to be more or less successful. People who believe that an individual's success is determined by intrinsic factors believe that it is due to how mentally healthy an individual is for them to be able to overcome the environment that they are put into. Extrinsic factors are factors that could also influence individual success. Some of these factors could be money, things you see in your neighborhood, or actions you make.…

    • 895 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Once the lottery players becomes a lottery winner, they will supposedly continue to play the lottery based on Durkheim’s theory. The winners will also not feel as content in life and will also be obsessed with buying things they would not have considered buying as a lottery player. Based on Durkheim’s theory, it is expected to already see differences in the wants of lottery players from low-economic and middle-class backgrounds. Only because the middle-class already has more money to start with, so they strive for more and can be less content in life than low-economic…

    • 1483 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    There are many secrets to success that many of us do not know about. Success is a process that can take many years to achieve. All the people who became successful with millions or billions of dollars did not just get lucky. People usually think that they just become lucky with fame and money, but that is not true. Based on the novel Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell there are many theories on how people became successful, and if we knew about these theories then many more of us would be able to become successful in life.…

    • 2051 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Many people have their own input or opinion on how people become successful. They're millions of reasons people could have as to why so many people are successful. A certain individual Malcolm Gladwell wrote a nonfiction text the Outliers by talking about convincing cases of how successful people arise from opportunities. In the general world today, majority of people come to think that the element of success are within the personality and character of the individual.…

    • 76 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever wondered what social class do you fall into? Do you consider yourself as rich or as poor? These characters are trying their best to make a decent living. Everyone knows the saying “If you try your best you’ll succeed” we heard it all the time from our parents when we don’t think that we can do it. This saying doesn’t seem to apply to the characters from the Cost of Living by Carlos Fuentes and the main character in Sweat by Jorge Amado.…

    • 1913 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The power of fiction to transport a reader into a different time, place or quest carries the human imagination like a magic carpet to worlds unknown. “Human beings love stories. We put them everywhere-not only in books, films, and plays, but also in songs, news articles, cartoons, and video games.” (Kennedy, Gioia 2013) Not only is fiction used to expand the imagination, but fiction can also be used as a vehicle of expression for the human heart to communicate emotions, principles and problems that we often encounter as created beings.…

    • 794 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Success is like building a house. It is impossible to build a house overnight. You must do the little things every day in order to eventually have the house that you want. You have to build the house brick by brick, nail by nail and day by day. Like building a house, success is a long and arduous process that does not occur…

    • 1429 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    According to statistics Its more appealing to poorer and more uneducated people to buy lottery because they are always in the hopes that dramatic change in their lives. To make…

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the story "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare say's "is a step on which I must fall down or else O'erleap." Macbeth is trying to control his fortune, he needed to act in order to become king. Donald Thomas worked hard for his success. In the article, "The sports gene" by David Epstein, Epstein say's "with a total of eight months of legimate high-jump training to his name." In order for Thomas to win the championship he worked hard to get there.…

    • 163 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Thomas Nagel is a New York University professor and has written many things regarding the mind and moral theory. In moral luck Nagel thinks through the whole Kantian view of morality which shows that everyone is equal participants in the moral enterprise. Nagel argues that the Kantian view is too simple and doesn’t take into account the way external factors impinge upon us. Nagel brings up four different types of moral luck: constitutional luck, circumstantial luck, consequential luck which means consequences retrospectively justifies an otherwise immoral act (or fail to justify an otherwise more act), and consequential luck which the consequences affect the type or quality of blame or remorse (or moral praise). Having luck, whether it be good or bad, should impact how a person should act towards things.…

    • 789 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The American dream has changed drastically since the colonial period, evolving from a traditional man in the middle class who put his family first, to a man or woman who’s main priority is to become wealthy. By definition, the American dream is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Hundreds of years ago, this dream was not attainable due to many barriers that restricted women, immigrants, and people of color specifically. The common caucasian male was the symbol of power and authority in American history, disregarding women from society’s upper ranks, even if there were a woman more suitable to be the leader.…

    • 1602 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Failure is a concept that many people fear. The very thought of the word sends anxiety into the hearts of those who wish to be a success or have big goals for themselves. Yet failure has been around for ages. From the time of Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo to President Obama failing to keep his promises to the county. Failures are seen as a negative factor of life.…

    • 811 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Betting Vs Bookies

    • 1205 Words
    • 5 Pages

    When you gamble online, you are betting against a bookie. They produce odds that show how much you will be paid if you win. These odds are manipulated to ensure the bookie cannot lose, and they may even use the odds to affect which bets you place, since unlike investing, you have a choice on how much you place on each bet. When you invest, you do not have a choice of how much a share costs, though you do have a choice around how many of them you buy. When you buy shares, you are not putting your money against a bookie, which is a point in your favor.…

    • 1205 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Everyone has everyday problems nevertheless, as a citizen in a western country we are often oblivious as to how remarkable a life we have and we ought to be reminded, which is why people exclaim “Think of the starving children in Africa” Having the opportunities to live life the way you prefer is a central theme in the text “How Lucky You Are” by Debi Alper. The short story is focused around the adolescent Max from England who is living life without caring too much or setting high goals, he then meets Ishraqi from Iran who inspires him after only a day. Her story dealing with how she has not got a clue as to if her parents are deceased or alive causes Max to value his mother a great deal more. Still the fact that Ishraqi is trying not to be deported back to a country that may put her to jail or worse and that she is going to take a GCSE test motivates Max to be a little more ambitious and appreciate the life he has.…

    • 880 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays