Essays on Luck

It is often said that luck is when opportunity meets preparation ; this cannot be truer for the young and charismatic sports reporter, Kelsey Wingert. She came to limelight after she took up a job with Fox News which she never bargained for. Fans of…

Luck plays an important role in a person’s success. This statement is true as luck provides opportunities and pathways into favored events although the chances are low. Then can someone just say that only people gifted with luck are the ones who can only achieve…

Noel Bushnell, the founder of Atari, once said that everyone who is taking a shower has had an idea, but it’s the people who get out of the shower and do something about it that make the difference. Luck was a huge part of the…

Thomas Jefferson once said “I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. What though is luck? Webster dictionary suggests that luck is the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual…

Two professional friends were riding on a car and heading to a seminar. On the way, they saw a public bus crashed. Both came out to help. After the rescue, one of them summarised that it was a bad day because of the unpleasant incident…

William Shakespeare, an English poet, believed that “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Most people perceive greatness as achieving a skill with excellence and a level of mastery, as well as being better than most persons also…

What is luck? Why do we wish each other good luck? Why do we hope that we are lucky in the future? What exactly is the definition of luck? Well I can answer that for you, luck is simply the success or failure apparently brought…

Chance is an objective probability. The type of probability that depends only on what the mind-independent world is like. There exists a bunch of words with which we define events that in some way or another surprise us, either because we didn’t expect them, or…

Success is earned and takes great motivation and skill to get there. It is believed that success also comes from luck and if someone is not born with the luck aspect they may be less likely to be successful. If extrinsic motivation continues to be…

You probably also know this from yourselves: days when everything doesn’t go as it should, days when everything goes wrong. Sometimes you wonder if you could help your luck a little. The phenomenon of luck not only fascinates us, it is also a constant companion…

Days before his 18th birthday Brandon Dewolfe and his close friend Kayla had gone out to a field about 20 minutes from our town Greenville, to climb a tree. While high up Brandon Dewolfe had tragically fallen from one of the higher branches, luckily paramedics…

Are you lucky? Maybe you’ve won a prize? Or maybe you haven’t. Thomas Jefferson once said “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” Luck. What is it? People believe that luck is good…