Let’s assume there are 100 big containers numbered from 1 to 100 and one of them has gold in it.
Two people ‘A’ and ‘B’ have the chance to win this gold, all they have to do is break open these containers until they find gold.
Odds of finding gold in those containers would be 1 in 100 as per probability theory.
Its A’s turn, he starts off breaking the containers, he opens the first one, then the second and then the third, goes on till 24th and is too lazy to open up the rest and gives up.
A later discovers that the gold was present in the 28th container, which means that had he broke 4 more containers he would have won that.
He would have been called lucky if he had tried just a little bit hard but he didn't, he was too lazy to do so.
It’s now B’s turn, he starts off breaking the containers, 1,2,3,4…..till 50 and still no luck but B is still determined and continues breaking them and finally discovers gold at the 78th container.
What conclusion can be drawn from the above example?
Even if A was lucky to have gold in the 28th container the luck didn’t favour him because he was lazy.
Even if B had a bad luck because of having gold in the 78th container, he overcame his fate by overcompensating it with persistent and hard work.
Which means that:
Luck does exist but it favours the people who take an honest effort.
Bad luck exist too but it can be overcome by compensating it with hard work.
Although this example might sound lame(it actually is) most of the things in life work in a similar way, your odds of becoming successful eventually increases the more shots you take.
I would vouch for hard work any day as effort is something you can control.
Another funny thing is that people like to believe in luck because it seems so effortless and magical.
People in the real world look at people like ‘B’ who walk with a pot of gold and say how luck they are to get that gold.
However what they fail to see is the work that’s behind it.
Only intelligent people go to IIT ?
-Saurav Sharma
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