Luck is this mysterious thing that everyone wants and no one truly understands. If we had to define luck, how would we define it? For me, I'd rather define luck as a mix of someone who has ability to be on right place at right time and attain the right opportunity. These three things i.e. time, place and opportunity are extremely important when used in a right way. For someone who has ambition and is willing to work towards it this can totally skew the game in their favor. Even when someone has no major ambition and are just willing to work enough for basic stuff, luck enables their journey on a path where they couldn't have possibly achieved by their own pure effort.
Now since we know what luck is and in our daily lives we've seen a lot of lucky and unlucky people yet we still fail to comprehend what is that exactly that makes one lucky and unlucky? Is it their attitude, wealth, education, knowledge, comprehension, adaptability, heart nature? what exactly is it? So far we've already attributed luck as a random element where no one understands why it works the way it does and why does it change when it does. But we do sure have a lot of theories about luck, curses and misfortune being a part of it whether it's in fantasy stories or real life superstitions.
But seriously, what exactly is luck? We have understood knowledge, wisdom, comprehension and alongside several hard concepts that are abstract enough to feel yet tough enough to pinpoint in a repeatable way. Most of the humanity's success can be attributed to this line of thinking where someone makes a new innovation and then there are repeatable steps created to achieve that state by most simple steps that can be repeated which reduces the struggle and efforts and helps anyone reach that state easier than previous generations. Rather than progressing by plain intuition and personal experience, repeatable steps work like a framework or a guidance where known pitfalls can be avoided and progress simply makes good stuff available without major efforts.
This system although leaves a glaring hole which substitutes time for actual wisdom that one would've attained by following the natural process. Without the true understanding of why these steps to repeat success the way it works, there's no progress. Most involved in research at the end of the day do attain some form of understanding of the steps but progressing from there just makes effort requirement multiple times of what it'd be for a person who'd naturally attained success that way.
Even for someone who succeeded on their own or by taking minor assistance of frameworks, without true understanding even they're prone to failures. While have a true understanding without frameworks to guide has their own set of cons where either someone can be lost in a trap where there's no out or time runs out before something significant is being achieved. Hence the majority sticks to the idea of using repeatable framework steps and only ventures into true understanding of subject matters only when needed.
For pioneers on the other hand, true understanding is most important and here's where luck comes into the picture. Following steps although increases the chances of success, arguably much better than venturing out blind or without frameworks but it doesn't really improve real rate of success. It can only improve the possibility of success since the real chance of success depends on luck. Now as we defined earlier, luck can be said a power which makes you benefit from being at a right time, in right place at a right capacity. But say if we have to put luck in same repeatable steps, how can that be made possible? Can we really manufacture luck? Maybe and maybe not.
We for sure can manufacture the illusion of luck but real luck is something I feel is a mix of intuition, attitude and wisdom. The right mix of this makes someone truly lucky or unlucky. My theory is based of real life observations and whatever I've read in my life so far. So overall luck might not be a singular attribute rather a compounded entity that we perceived as a singular entity. If explained with an example, intuition tells something that unconscious mind registered but conscious mind is not able to explain with facts. Wisdom is something gained by applying knowledge over time and earning experience from the results. Lastly, attitude is your true heart nature with your intention to do with anything in that situation. Any one of these not working in your favor can turn a good luck into a bad one.
For example, someone with good intention can perceive a situation but if attitude is bad or wisdom is lacking, all they can do is note down and do nothing about it. Similarly, if attitude is bad no amount of wisdom or intuition can help them from creating their own doom. At the same time if attitude is good but there's a severe lack of intuition or wisdom to implement on that attitude it has no further results. If wisdom is good but the there's a severe lack of intuition or attitude, only can only struggle and create hard paths for themselves.
Intuition is a observatory receptacle which helps perceive current situation, wisdom provides ways to work on that situation and attitude decides whether to work on the situation or not, and if so in what way. Hence, luck is inherently a compounded entity which is comprehended over time and mistakenly as a single attribute. Whether it can be improved or deteriorated solely depends on how one functions as the life progresses. In simple terms we can say if someone's getting lucky or simply running out of luck. For someone avoiding accountability it's just as easy way to say that their luck ran out rather than understanding where they really lacked in reality.
So can you really improve your luck? what are your thoughts on it? Do comment and let me know.
