"Where success is concerned-in whatever way you choose to define success-effort matters. So does skill. Experience. Perseverance. A willingness to do what others will not. And a little bit of luck: A study published in Physics and Society found that while some degree of talent is necessary to be successful in life, "almost never do the most talented people reach the highest peaks of success, being overtaken by mediocre but sensibly luckier individuals.""
"Fortunately, all luck isn't necessarily random. According to neurologist James Austin in his book Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty, there are four basic types of luck, and three of them you at least partly control: Blind luck. Opportunity, or outcome, without effort. Unforeseen, and more important, uncontrollable. Counting on blind luck? Good luck with that. Luck from motion. Taking action. Trying things. Doing things."
Success requires effort, skill, experience, perseverance, willingness, and some degree of luck. A study in Physics and Society found that talent alone rarely guarantees reaching the highest peaks of success because luck can allow less talented but luckier people to surpass more talented individuals. Hard work—outworking, outthinking, and outlasting others—improves the odds but does not eliminate the role of luck. Four basic types of luck exist, and three are at least partly controllable. Blind luck is unforeseeable and uncontrollable, while luck from motion comes from taking action, trying things, and increasing encounters to raise chances of serendipity.
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