This is my first post here and I’d like to start with explaining the title of this blog. “Luck is skill”. I’ve first heard this phrase some time ago and I’d instantly liked it. At first it was just a gut feeling, but then I wanted to explore this instinct deeper. Isn’t luck beyond human control? Isn’t that something that happens to us? Why such phrase struck a chord in my heart?
I’ve found two facets of this sentence that I particularly liked. The first one is that it means that I have a direct and intrinsic control over my life. And the other one is that of luck is a skill than it can be learned.
It’s often way too easy to blame “others” or “unfair world” for ones failures. Yet I believe that it is the personal decisions that make enormous difference. When one fails at something it means that he haven’t tried enough. Or more often than that he’s approached the problem from a bad angle. Or simply it was a bad problem to wrestle with and he should be doing something completely different at all.
And then there is a second aspect of this sentence. All skills can be developed. We can get the “luck skill” as granted from our parents, but we can also develop it ourselves. If one is able to treat his failures not as disasters, but as a possibility to step back, gain a bit of insight and learn than she is already
The bottom line is: Do not be a bad workman that always blames his tools. Your behaviour makes difference both in the short and in the long run.
This is the first post on this blog, but definitely not the last. Updates won’t be frequent, but I’ll try to make each one top-notch and thought provoking. So if you want to bear with me add the RSS feed to your favourite reader.
