Saturday Essay: Why Luck is Inescapable

Those who say 'you make your own luck' are fooling themselves

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Ten shun!

In the 1980’s when I was making it as a yuppie ( small business, little jeep, hard nose) I would commonly hear the exclamation, ‘I don’t believe in luck’ - usually from some similarly cocky, self-made man. The premise being that all it required was the proper effort and you get what you want and go where you want…