Is Success LUCK or HARD WORK? (HONEST TRUTH)

Being about half a Mick, I’ve always been a fan of the saying: “If You’re Lucky Enough to Be Irish, You’re Lucky Enough.”

But what in our lives can we indeed attribute to pure luck? And then how do we then distinguish luck from predictable randomness or movements of Providence?

Is Success Luck or Hard Work? I'm going to share with you the Honest Truth in a minute

Well, I ain’t totally sure where these blurred lines exist and where clarity might be found, but one perspective I tend to give the most weight to is the idea that LUCK IS THE RESIDUE OF DESIGN. This, of course, means that much of what we casually call luck isn’t luck at all.

This concept is most attributable to the English poet John Milton—although no one can seem to validate this attribution—and then more widely to Wesley Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. They signed Jackie Robinson back in the 1940s.

Rickey himself was a man of design. He didn’t wait for some vague notion of luck to enter the orbit of his efforts. When Rickey hatched a vision, he followed through with decisive and strategic action.

Watch the whole video to learn how Luck Is the Residue of Design.

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Andrew Thorp King is the author of FAILURE RULES!: The 5 Rules of Failure for Entrepreneurs, Creatives, and Authentics.

He's a fintech banker, novelist, speaker, punk rocker, ex-bodybuilder, cigar lover, tattoo enthusiast, and serial entrepreneur. He founded two independent record labels—Thorp Records and Sailor’s Grave Records—and has invested in many spaces including online lending, fitness, lead generation, and independent music.

He is also a serial failure. He's crashed and burned through bankruptcy, divorce, mortgage default, public assistance, and multiple business failures. But, he's like a jack-in-the-box, because after every punch life hits him with, he pops back up and rebuilds his life—informed by failure—with a big smile on his face.

At first, failure sucks. But if you follow the rules of failure—seeing beyond the mess and picking through the good stuff left in the rubble—you can move forward into success.

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