Are some people just born lucky, or do we make our own luck?

[Apple1996]

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I think both are possible but more people are born lucky💚💚💚
Any of you guys think you were born lucky?

People are just born lucky duckies 🦆🦆🦆🦆

We can create our own luck 🤞🤞🤞🤞

[AlienParasite]

Beign lucky is in part a state of mind, because a part of beign lucky is beign relaxed but aware enaugh of what's happening around so you are able to notice opportunities when they are right in front of your eyes.

Some people seem to have this mindset by default, or that they might have learnt this behavior from their context... and nobody chooses the context they are born in, the education they will receive as a child, or their genes... So luck is kind of something you born with despite you could train your mindset and try not to be blind to opportunities.

I think is not wrong to say luck or randomness exists, as is a fact that there are things that are out of our control no matter what we do. Believing we have control over everything and denying the random side of life, is a good formula to frustration.

So yes, some people are born lucky.

[potatoiswhoiam]

I used to believe some people are born lucky, but now I've changed my mind. I believe we make our own luck by choosing the perspective from which we view life, and the efforts we make to stay positive and improve ourselves continuously. People who have nice lives aren't just lucky, they make the efforts to stay positive and are determined enough to overcome hardships. This is how they're able to focus on their goals and make something out of their lives. Everyone can be successful, it doesn't take only luck, but even when it does, luck largely depends on us and not on coincidences.

[Lliam]

Both are true, but some people are definitely born luckier than others. Some people have good genes, good health, brains and looks. Some people are raised in happy families. Some people are born into affluence. Time and place are also factors.

There are other forms of luck. For example, when I was 26 years old I fell into a wonderful job that I had no qualifications for. I just happened to be friends with a guy whose mom lived down the street from the vice president of a company that was starting a trainee program. My friend and I were the first ones hired. It turned into a profitable career.

I've had lots of luck in my life - so many wonderful experiences. I can only describe such things as fortunate happenstance.

[standingUP]

All luck runs out. It is only perspective if it's human controlled. Let's say you win the lottery all the sudden a lover comes into your life. Do they love you or the money. all the sudden "friends" and family are particularly nicer until their handouts are stopped.
Sure you can afford some toys but your neighbors the Jones's have a better one next week all the sudden yours isn't as desirable.
ALL PERSPECTIVE...

Some people work very hard for their life goals. Is that luck or hard work where they forgot to enjoy the journey for the fleeting destination that seems unreachable.

I believe in God's blessing through Grace. We get to enjoy the process and destination when it a gift you are grateful for.

[razelove]

I'd like to think both, but I know for a fact there have been so so many tosses of the dice in my life that I came out aces in to be coincidence. On the flip side of that, I think having early luck/unluckiness makes you cultivate the same later.

If you expect only bad things, that's what you prepare yourself for, and remember, same with if you only expect good things, having no expectations you only remember extremes one way or the other. Things happen, they shape you, and make you shape the world and relationships around you.

[GraveDoll]

Doesn't matter what your born with. if you dont play your cards right you still will lose in the end.

this is a forever fight between my best friend and I. She thinks it because i come form a stable background and born tall and with looks and blah blah.

But I have never use that as a excuse to be silly, play games, or do drugs. I recognize early on (probably earlier than most) I had a advantage and I have utilize and continue to do so to benefit my future, that not luck that just how life works. But I'm far from blind.

I DO believe somethings are what they are like where you born or the rules that build fences for many I always rememrb to take that in account.

SO I DO NOT JUDGE because i honestly dont know what "luck" as you or what i call chains and crosses we were born to bare despite many trying. i was born in a over religious country or where women are still looked at as frail beings. I was "lucky" to have the freedom to do as i please and lucky i can use all of my opportunities.

[Lynx122]

I don't really know. I'd say we make our own luck but I have to admit that I'm very lucky. Not with my mental health that's where I got fucked but when it comes life I always just land on my feet and find a way to get a good place for myself. Sometimes it's just other people being nice but it just happens too often I don't know if it's a gift I have or what I don't know.

But maybe I'm just doing something right that I don't really understand myself and that's what it is. Or I'm just lucky, who knows? Other people tell me I'm lucky a lot though :D

[aWes0MeNeSs]

For the most part, you create your own luck. Of course, there are cases in which people are dealt a bad hand in life and are just unlucky by circumstance, such as those born in war-torn third world countries who have to struggle to feed and protect their families and can't do much to change their situation.

However, there are a lot of victims out there who choose to blame things on bad luck that they are in full control of, but it's easier to make excuses than it is to change their situation and do better.

[Fynix]

Think of it like this: Fortune/Luck is a glass of water. Life is you sitting down watching movies. Some people drink all their water at once and spend the rest of the movie night thirsty. Some people stay thirsty and just drink the whole cup after the movie night ends, bringing luck late into their lives. Some people steadily drink a sip every few moments throughout the night, lasting their whole lives In a simple amount.
The usage between one person and the other is all that differs. We all have the same water and have the same size of cup.

[Fynix]

by the way this is all in my humble 15 Y. O. opinion. Could be different.

[theCobbler]

I've tried everything, ( well everything , except for sacrificing a virgin , lol) and I'm still trying to find that pot of Luckys gold !

I think some are born lucky some aren't, but it really depends on what your personal definition of Luck is ..
I do , however believe we create our own Heaven and /or Hell, ! If I can make my own heaven , then I dont really think I need Luck !

Now, Pass the Whiskey , Lass , me Shamrocks are in a wee bit of a twist ! lol
Happy St. Patricks day!

[ZeussLightningBolt]

In Poland we believe if you are born with a cap on your head, you will have good luck, and it's certainly held true for me and my aunt.
It's not an actual cap, but it's like an extra layer of mucus on your head. I have no clue what the actual medical term for it is.

[Apple1996]

Ah yess the dreaded cradle cap. My son had that lol

[ZeussLightningBolt]

Is that what it's called?
Why dreaded? It brings good luck :p

[Apple1996]

Cuz it makes the baby look like he has snake skin on his head and it's super hard to get out. Gotta get a special comb

[ZeussLightningBolt]

I googled it, and yeah, it looks pretty gross.
It's good luck though :p

[Obtuse]

I would say that if someone has the potential to make their situation better, they are far more inclined to improve their chances if they don't look at everything in terms of luck. This is a matter of ways of thinking that helps drive some people towards success as I see it, not a scientific matter of "right/wrong".

[Obtuse]

It's like a poker player who thinks the whole game boils down to luck isn't likely to put in the effort and proper analysis to improve their chances of success. They are likely to just continue playing the way they do, avoid fixing their most leaky plays, and end up bleeding money.

[Obtuse]

Then just complain about bad beats left and right.

[Obtuse]

Life is like Poker that way. There's no way to absolutely guarantee success. But there are ways to improve the odds in our favor, and those who put the most stock in luck tend to put the least amount of effort into improving their odds.

[ecfresh]

My grandmother was born lucky. This manifested itself in games we used to play. While she had natural skills that helped also, she had the luck of getting the card she needed to win many more times than lose.

[Apple1996]

Awhh your lucky grams was probably a amazing women

[baconninjadc]

It's a little bit of a and a little bit of b. some people work and work and work but the opportunity and timing just aren't there. Other people suddenly lose limbs or have life changing catastrophes befall them so whatever luck they make is lost by misfortune. I like the question though because I'm an optimist and I believe we make our own luck for the most part

[supercutebutt]

I believe that usually, you make your own luck. You can set up conditions for yourself that will increase your odds of having success. True, some people are born into a wealthy family. That's dumb luck. But unless you live right, you can easily eff up that good luck.

[Dargil]

*There can simply be good luck. The lottery. I don't have much.
*There is hard work but that gets disproportionately good results, work which is luck-augmented. I've had a few cases.
*There is achievement by grinding hard work. Pete Rose (baseball) and Larry Bird (basketball) just relentless fukking hard work. I confess that I have lacked the ambition to excel.

[TCredo]

I think it's a bit of both... at birth, you are being born into a fortunate or unfortunate situation - which doesn't set your future of course but it can help or hinder how your future might unfold. Of course, there are countless stories of how someone was born into a horrible situation and blossomed - as well as countless vice versa ones.

In terms of "making your own luck", I do think that's possible but it's not without learning, preparing, acting, etc.

[Robertcw]

Luck is made for you by the people around you, by their choices and how they impact you and by how your family's previous generation's choices impact and affect you today.

In my view, luck is caused by factors outside your control. And is, in my opinion, the origin of the phrase 'you are who you surround yourself with.'

[Gavyn]

I say people are born lucky. Think about it: some people are born to poor drug addicts, whereas some people are born in actual royalty. What could either of those people have done to change or avoid that? The world is not fair, and trying to make it equal is a pointless effort in the sense of that it will never be accomplished.

[MannMitAntworten]

No. Not remotely. In fact, if anyone were to ask my dad, whenever I am
Feeling carefree and more happy than normal, a dark cloud forms wherever I may go. Even started blaming my dark cloud for the corona virus.

I mean, it is bizarre that weird shit does follow me. Sudden forest fires, floods, sitting parked and having people slam into my truck or large bolts flying off of passing utility trucks and denting mine... just to just the more recent examples.

[standingUP]

and you surviving all that is WHAT?

[MadBoy]

I used to always look down at the ground, usually out of being depressed but also to find money. The one time I wasn't looking down, my brother was next to me, walking with me. He found $20 on the ground on a sidewalk.

You tell me if he's got good luck and I got bad luck or not.

[blondfrog]

Little bit of both. People can also be lucky but are lucky in other ways. Some people are lucky with money, others with landing jobs they really like, and maybe others in finding their perfect mating partner. I think the main problem in this regard is that we don't appreciate what we have and only look at others who have things we don't have instead of looking at what we have that others don't have.

[Rangers]

A bit of both, of course you will always have outliers who have a ton of money and success despite making little or no personal sacrifice and hard work to get there, and then you have people who sacrifice everything, work harder than anyone in the world, yet still get nowhere, but generally both come into play.

[AmandaYVR]

Some people are lucky. I would remove the "born..." part of that sentence though. That implies it's a lifetime status, which is untrue. It comes and goes. It's just the brain's way of seeing patterns, where actually they don't exist.