{"id":128,"date":"2008-10-08T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/credible-content.com\/content\/luck-and-effort\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:05:43","slug":"luck-and-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/credible-content.com\/blog\/luck-and-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck and effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Godin on his blog has marvelously explained the inherent characteristic of \u201ceffort\u201d while comparing luck and effort:<\/p>\n

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While luck may be more appealing than effort, you don’t get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is the link to his post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has talked about people who have lots of luck; success falls on to their laps without much effort. On the other hand there are people who have to sweat and bleed for little fragments of success and recognition.<\/p>\n

At the cost of sounding like \u201cthe grapes are sour\u201d I would like to say that the perception of success and failure differs from person to person and so is the perception of luck. Some people consider failure is a great opportunity to learn and start all over again. Similarly I consider myself extremely lucky that I don\u2019t have to leave home every morning in order to make a living. I just have to move into another room to manage my online copywriting and content writing business<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t have to work hard; but I am lucky that the technology of today has helped me earn a comfortable living while being with my wife and my baby all the time. Seth Godin<\/a> has rightly pointed out that we are lucky that we were not born in the times of black plague or when slavery was rampant and freedom was hard to find.<\/p>\n

Does this mean I don\u2019t need anything else in my life? Sure I do. I want to earn more money, I want to make my family\u2019s future financially secure, and I want to pursue my genuine passions: singing and writing literature. All these things may happen luckily (a hotshot music director stumbling upon my YouTube video or a big publisher falling in love with my writing style<\/em>), or I may have to work really hard to achieve them. I have problem with neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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