I'm back ! This topic about luck has been going around in mind for quite some time now, but it has been difficult for me to put it together due to the controversy it unleashes in my own mind.
I'm going to quote a little fragment of Woody Allen's Match Point in here: "The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose."
I'm a full supporter of this, I do think that luck is what you need to mainly success in life at all levels, of course, you need to put a bit of your effort, but in general if you have luck you are done ! But then again, I was discussing this with two friends (M&M) of mine, and they were both supporters that it's not luck to blame for success, it mostly lies in the choices people make. So, after thinking about this for awhile, I cannot deny the fact that, in a way this is true, some people have the bold courage in taking decisions that lead them to what we can randomly call luck..."she was so lucky in finding that husband", for example, but maybe the reason behind that is, that she tossed wrong candidates before, leading her to her "good choice", what to others that might be luck.
But if we give 100% to choices, then what makes some people always pick up the wrong ones, and for others always or most of the times the good ones? Is it that they are smarter? Are they clairvoyants? Better judgment? Or was it my friend luck behind all of that? Were they born with a good star as the saying says?
I've seen people far from being suitable for job positions, yet they are there, and sometimes with no other qualification that being "well gifted"; I've seen terrible women with great men and vice versa, sometimes they don't even have to choose, things get to them easily, on the other hand, I've witness good, more than appropriate workers for certain positions, don't getting what they deserve, good women with horrible men. I can say for the latter that it might be a matter of a bad choice, but let's say a woman is married to a cheater, and decides to leave him, that is already a fine choice, right? But then some of them stay alone, and don't find somebody else again, although they can go out and do their best to find somebody new; therefore I have to acknowledge is a matter of both good choices + luck, right?
As much as I grant a lot of value to the choices people make, and I admire a lot those who aren't afraid, and just go for it, which makes them already deserving of the best, I have to say that to me the equation goes like this: be good at what you do, if you're the best at that it doesn't hurt, be at the right place at the right time and with a bit of luck you're really done!
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AG
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Comparto tu punto sobre la suerte, pero pienso que no lo es todo.
Claro que ayuda, pero mira este ejemplo:
Yo puedo ser el carajo con más labia en el mundo, pero si yo aplico a un puesto al cual no estoy preparado y me contratan, tarde o temprano se termina por ver. Creo que mucho de lo que llamamos "suerte" se debe a cómo vemos las cosas en la vida. Hay personas que son excesivamente positivas a tal punto que incluso a las cosas malas les sacan algo positivo... Por lo general, los otros dirán que esta persona tiene suerte en la vida porque todo le sale bien.
En fin, mi principio es vivir la vida con honestidad, bondad, positivismo y, algo que me cuesta mucho, altruismo. Venimos de un país muy individualista y egoísta, en donde el concepto de "comunidad" no existe.
Bueno, ahí van my two cents ;-)
eso es correcto! suerte? que es eso? creo que para la único que MZ (yo) cree que existe la suerte es para el juego... por ser de probabilidades y matemáticas. Para el resto de la vida.... es uno, uno es el quien decide el camino tomar, la gente a quien buscar... las compañias en donde trabajar y etc, etc, etc.... incluso ir a por los riesgos, o no. Mayores, o menores... eso depende de cada quien y de los valores que tengas. Claro esos aprendidos en casa.
En el trabajo... pues si.... a veces creo que es suerte, pero otras muchas creo que es solo actitud. Es verle y sacarle lo mas positivo a lo "negativo:. Mi teoría ante la vida es imaginar las estaciones del año.... O la de un árbol... Le cortas una ramita (pobre como sufrirá) peeeero no le vuelve a crecer mas verdecita y fuerte? pues asi somos. Las situaciones negativas: la poda para una mata, pero luego, igual que ellas, volvemos y crecemos... con esperanzas y mucho aprendizaje y lo mas importante para tratar de no cometer los mismos errores.
Te cuento. trabaje en una empresa por 10 años de los cuales dependiendo del país así iba la cia. por eso de trabajar para nuestra (de Venezuela) industria mas importante. EL petróleo... Cada vez que habían crisis y veia ver como sacaban y sacaban gente era horrible. Eran mis amigos/as porque en Venezuela no son "colegas" NOOOO son amigos.... y ahi quedaba yo. Pues y tuve la ventaja ante cualquiera de ellos de sobrevivir. Pero luego escuchabas que a esas personas que dejaban la cia. les salian mejores opciones, incluso hasta con incrementos de sueldo. Entonces... no era positivo... en fin! es uno quien decide TODO en la vida, lo único en lo cual nunca tendremos decisión alguna... La muerte y para alla vamos todos.... los con suerte y los sin suerte.
...lo importante es vivirla, y amar a los que merecen nuestro amor incondicional.
Espero que se te mejore esa gripe. A ver si nos vemos prontito!
un abrazo
La Beba
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