Why is it that the harder I work, the luckier I get ?

Because when you work harder you are better prepared and when opportunities come up you are able to capitalize on them. When you're not working hard you aren't prepared and you mis opportunities. You're not actually any luckier, it just seems that way.

America wants to Know wrote:I've never been able to figure out, why is it that the harder I work, the luckier I get ?

Yeah, funny how that works, isn't it?

There is no such thing as luck. Things happen the way that they will happen, and that is it.

If you think something is lucky, then it is just a coincidence that you perceive to be lucky because it ends up working out for you.

Raja wrote:

There is no such thing as luck. Things happen the way that they will happen, and that is it.

If you think something is lucky, then it is just a coincidence that you perceive to be lucky because it ends up working out for you.

Riiiiiiiiight.

Next thing you know, you're going to tell us there is no God.

So, tell us why bad things happen to good people!

Your cliche is old and boring. We let that one go years ago.

Same reason the harder I hit my wife the more she bleeds. Cause and effect my friend. Cause and effect.

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

play-doh wrote:

Riiiiiiiiight.

Next thing you know, you're going to tell us there is no God.

Haha, I like that.

I think I've heard this before...Thomas Jefferson

not phx wrote:

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Ah...you beat me too it! Most ppl just clock in, clock out (I heard a woman the other day bragging how she'd been at her job for EIGHTEEN YEARS... I would have died long ago). Work hard, increase your skills, be open to opportunity, make the leap, move forward, make connections... what some folks call "luck."

I finally have a position in which I wake up each morning looking FORWARD to my day -- and one of the reasons is that opportunities abound.

MasterG wrote:

I think I've heard this before...Thomas Jefferson

Umm... a couple centuries off... Gary Player, South African golfer, one of the best golfers in the history of the sport, actually said it.

America wants to Know wrote:

I've never been able to figure out, why is it that the harder I work, the luckier I get ?

The LAW of averages

Abraham said it 1st. That terrorist in the Bible who created the Arabs and the Jews with his penis.

Oh boy wrote:

So, tell us why bad things happen to good people!

Your cliche is old and boring. We let that one go years ago.

By what standard do you determine the difference between a good person and bad person?

dr wrote:

MasterG wrote:

I think I've heard this before...Thomas Jefferson

Umm... a couple centuries off... Gary Player, South African golfer, one of the best golfers in the history of the sport, actually said it.

Gary Player may have said it, but that does not mean he was the first. Try Seneca the Younger.

Abraham needed a NHH (nappy..) to put his meat into, after all Jesus was Black.