2nd post in 2 days! Goodbye LA ace. But today I am going to talk about the other less prominent factor to success, besides digging out enough creativity to last you for about 30 years and the willingness to slog it.The other factor is... luck. Sometimes, people are just unlucky. There may be a few talented people who have thought up some brilliant new idea but their boss is currently in a bad mood after a having his divorce and he just skims through the report and dismisses it as " load of crap". Luck and chance can be seen and found everywhere, they may bring good luck or bad luck.
For example: During Adolf Hitler's rise to power, there was a little bit of luck involved as the time he came to prominence was when the worst of the Great Depression was over. If not for that little bit of luck, millions of Jews wouldn't have died(and we would have less to study for history). A few years later, when Hitler took a BIG gamble and remilitarized the Rhineland. Hitler was risking everything he had here. If the French had opposed them in anyway, they were to retreat, which would humiliate Hitler. Of course, as luck would have it, the French decided not to act and Hitler got away with his gamble.
Another example would be in the Merchant of Venice, during the casket test, the Prince of Morroco chose the wrong casket and thus doesn't get Portia as his wife. Again, what if luck had interfered and the Prince chose the lead casket, things would have changed entirely. Although this is a play, but things like these do happen in life.
As luck would have it, I suddenly cannot think of any other points to write so I'll end off here.
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