Successful businessmen make their own luck.
Of course, you will need to be rich to begin with to fund all these attempts.
Business is about connections and rich people get a great head start on the rest of us, but the average person does a lot of self-sabotage, as well.
Forget that nonsense, it's about starting with a large pool of money with which to bet.
I did well for myself comparing to what I came from. I could probably do better. But at some point, I laid out how it all played out. The kicks that made me serious money were simply luck. By working and exposing yourself, you increase your luck surface. But that doesn’t change the fact: It’s luck.
Now, if we are in a hot field like Tech, many more people are going to make it. That’s not because Tech people are amazing, but it’s because Tech is booming. Luck here starts to make sense only at the extremes (ie: becoming a Zuckerburg) but at a local area, because luck is abundant, your hard work matters more. We are all lucky (Tech people) to be in this very particular time.
This is irresponsible.
Personally I’m really happy that I gave up making excuses and actually tried to improve my situation. Despite all your persuasive arguments and conviction that it’s all a pretty fantasy, it did in fact work.
Here’s hoping we get to see you arguing the other side one day.
These kind of arguments would greatly benefit from people just saying what they think the actual number is
Being able to disregard everyone who thinks it's 1 or 0 is quite handy
This is the real and _only_ way to improve their chance of success, just telling that «you have to create your luck» or other non-sense, is just dangerous advice that exists only based on survivor bias and does nothing but improving the risk of destroying lives.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/978-whether-you-think-you-c...
A common thread is if you believe you cannot succeed, you won't. If you blame your failures on others, fate, etc., you will not succeed. If you find yourself saying "it's not my fault" a lot, your life isn't going to go well.
On the other hand, if you accept full responsibility for your failures, and do your best to learn from them, and are willing to try again, then success becomes probable.
I know these views are very much out of fashion today. But they still will work for you, if you choose to implement them.
Let me shoot that statement down in flames for you!
Successful businessmen have a lot of initial funds to pursue a lot of different ventures of which perhaps 1 will be a success.
If you ever talked to the successful businessman types you will find they have lots of companies but only 1 will be the source of their money. The rest either lose money or break even.
According to the maths, given people of identical skill and the same starting funds. Some small percentage of people will get lucky and accelerate out into riches whilst the rest will drop into poverty.
The people who accelerated into riches can't tell you why they accelerated out into riches, since it was purely luck based to begin with.
The more funds you acquire, the more risks you can take, the more money you can make.
Taking risks doesn't make you rich, becoming rich makes you take risks. It's that way around.