Originally Posted by
Joy
Originally Posted by
Warlord
Well I'm pretty sure if we take a random succesful person. And switch their lives to that of an average person of earth (and for the average person life pretty much sucks) these succesful people would do just as poor as the person they switched their circumstances with.
Why do you think the successful person became successful to begin with? And don't tell me it's breeding, wealthy parents, education opportunities, or anything of the like. There are a lot of people who start out at a serious disadvantage and become successful, and many people who have every advantage and end up unsuccessful.
You seriously claim that if you had been born with the demographics of average person on earth, you would be where you are now? There's tens of millions of "Joys" and "Warlords" out there, who aren't even having this conversation, because they don't even have computers. Can you actually name someone from that type of conditions, that has been successful not because of some other type of luck?
Most people who are successful are successful only because of those reasons. And to add to that list there's having options, lucky opportunities, being the right person, at the right place, at the right time etc.
And on the other hand there's accidents, missing chances because of some small thing etc.
There are lot more driven, very intelligent people even geniouses that haven't been succesful at all in their life. Than there are people who have "beaten the odds" for any other reason than just luck.
And when successul people are asked why they are so succesful, they nearly always state that they have been lucky.