Originally Posted by DannyA

I already wrote a big ass TL;DR thread, but it's just a fact that luck has a lot to do with it and there's no guarantee that you won't work hard, struggle, do what you're supposed to and end up in a gutter. Despite that, it never pays to place blame on your luck when you could be working. It does, however, pay to give credit to luck where it's due. There's a saying that geniuses see the same amount of patterns that super geniuses see and the difference is that a super genius will dismiss half of them as coincidence. Twice as many experience points with each effort.