Why Luck BEATS Hard Work
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Hey I love your videos I’ve watched you since 2017 :))
You do know he's pals with Epstein?
""|JEFFREY EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF
Funny how we talked about bohemian grove last week yet bill gates being connected to Epstein is unheard of hard to find news🤣😂
Being born into wealth check his genealogy out it was born with a silver spoon in it's gob
This reminds me of an interview I saw. A woman was talking about how she had lost her job and had no money to start the business she wanted. She talked about how in 1 year, she managed to get on her feet and buy her business because her parents let her live in their second home with no expenses so she could save money and if she could do it, anyone can!
Yeah. Anyone that has rich, affluent parents willing to give them a house for free.
In that instance, there wasn't even a guarantee her parents would have a second house, or would be willing to let her use it without cost.
@@Destroyer_V0 Ummmm, LUCK.
@@Destroyer_V0 ...that's the fucking point.
Yall call that luck ? I mean that's kinda privilege lol
@@REDACTEDFILE ...and being born into such privilege boils down to pure luck. Some of us are born into privilege, others aren't. Sheer dumb luck as to which you are.
I believe charisma is a huge underestimated factor in overall success as well
being able to bullshit people into letting you do things. I try not to do anything that will take away from others, some crooked presidents didn't care so much.
Hard to be charismatic when your eating crackers for thanksgiving and don’t have a positive reinforcing support system to guide you , unless you’re calling is to be a rapper.👁❤️
@@timq6224 Presidents are very charismatic
Gates is about as charismatic as a turnip.
@@jasonberezny9705 that's facts. Having money means your happier which means you can spend more time making friends and being nice. That's why I don't ever be mean back to people because usually they're going through something
My luck came in the form of my single hard working mom. We grew up very poor in the ghettos of Baltimore, life was hard be she was tougher. Gave us the best life she could and instilled good values and good work ethics in us. I never made it rich but make a good living to support my own family now and still think how lucky I was to have a mother who cared so much
I'd call that a better measure of success (how much you improved from your starting conditions) rather than how you've done compared to someone born in more fortunate circumstances.
@@jamiedorsey4167 is it not lucky that I had a mother in these conditions to guide me? Rather then end up like 80% of the kids I knew growing up?? I was very lucky to have a mother like that 💯
@@patrickthorpe6307 I don't think they were contesting you. You mentioned that you never made it rich. I think Jamie was saying that you sound pretty rich to them, as a compliment. They were agreeing with how you measured your success, versus other people using a specific materialistic benchmark.
@@ShadowPhoenix82 that's fair enough, Perhaps I misunderstood. It's been awhile since I posted this but my position still stands. My improvement regardless of my circumstances stemmed through my fortune of having a great mother. That's all I originally posted 🤔. I'm happy I had that..NO I'm LUCKY I had that
Yeah women need not have kids with the Bad Boy they worship so much
Luck has always made me wonder if the universe really is determined. That you can put your heart and soul into something thinking you are breaking the chains of fate when in reality you are still quite bound to them.
If you would have made this quote a year early you would have made hundreds of likes.
You define your fate. Or at least, you choose the path, even if you don't know the exact events that will occur.
For example, if you are a man than never asks girls out, you'll stay single for life. That's a GUARANTEE. Of course I'm talking about average to good looking men and not about CHADs.
@@godnyx117you choose the path but theres is no guarantee you will succed...and theres is then luck come into "equation" 😅
@@doomedwojak420 There is guarantee that you will become happy. The more open minded you are about what you can do with your life and what will make you happy, the more chances you have. Monks don't have a "wife and family" yet, they are some of the most happiest people out there. YOU CHOOSE you path!
if you think about it, things that are determined to happen have some sort of pattern. like 1+1 = 2. things that are determined have a reason to happen, luck is the opposite of that. And anyways, if everything was determined we would have some way of predicting the future, so idk if u think thats possible. that being said the very concept of luck on the greater scale is pointless, because luck at its core is things you cannot control/predict and if you knew every minute detail of the universe you would be able to predict everything. it all comes down to cause and effect
"If you want to go to university, it's quite literally better to be rich than to be clever"
Not sure what country you're from but in the Netherlands thats not true
@DeLaSoul Yes Well I think the natural attitude a person has will only make a big difference after 20 and any higher education in the Netherlands is like max 2000 a year if you meet the grades they need, your parents wealth doesn't really matter.
Like I only just realised US education system is even more fucked than ours
it's almost like college is expensive; oh wait, that's just america.
in my country, the rich can send their kids to private schools, where the teachers to student ratio is lower, the quality is better, and the students are more "informed".
the upper middle class can sent their kids to home tuition or hire a private tutor after school (private or public schooling). or maybe hire a private teacher to teach coding
the lower middle class goes to government schools, but the parents can send their kids to tuition after school.
in the lower class, some kids unfortunately have to leave school to support their parent's business/livelihood, ie working as a waiter, as a labourer or in factories.
Just wanna take this comment to show my appreciation for Thoughty2. His videos are always calming to watch and has taught me a fair bit of English.
Gayyyy
@@jackoff4404 Congratulations! Now that you're out of the closet what's your next step??
Just remeber its pronounced months and not momfs.
@Malcolm Give em a break, they're learning English from Thoughty2..
I concur 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
I've always thought of this. Hard work, talent, charisma are important for success but luck plays the most extremely important role but many fail to acknowledge that. I call this luck, tactical situational advantage.
Sadly my luck of leaving college in a financial disaster and hiring freezes all over was… not so good. Despite the 137iq , I feel the pain of those other unlucky “intelligent” people. It sucks, and we do what we have to do go by with life… and sadly I don’t have riches to change my work, the authority to change my bosses decisions, but I have to enjoy what I can out of life. Make those around me smile if I can. Give back however I can to those that have supported me in rough times.
@@erickrobson60 I mean high iq doesn't mean that you are wise. It only means that you are more intellectually smart however being smart is not enough. It is possible although rare for people to get unlucky their whole life but they make bad decision during their life in which they do not think it was and refuse to sacrifice while others were. A example of this is saying you do not have the authority to change your bosses decisions. Why should you? It is his company and he should have the freedom to make his decisions. Although i do appreciate your loyalty to the people who helped you, it may be your pride of your iq that is holding you down. You are definitely more intelligent then most people on the world however intelligence isn't the only thing that makes people successful. Perhaps if you have some time to self reflect you may be able to change your life for the better. Best of luck.
In the whole end , lucky or not , it feels better when you know you did all you could and the opportunity never came , rather then when there was an opportunity but you weren't prepared or didn't work hard to catch that opportunity.
Because it's easier to accept that it's somebody's fault rather than yours .
@@user-xf1tx3hs7u true intelligence is not everything , it's maturity and the ability to learn from mistakes and many other facts ,in my life I've met much more people who said they had the opportunity but they weren't prepared. So yeah I guess that how it is .
It always depends.
Not many people know how to create more luck.
My sister once told me that ones looks also equated to success. The 'good-looking' job candidates will get the position over a somewhat plain Jane. I worked for many years in a job agency and I can attest this is true in my experience
People say that look doesn't matter, but having good look and especially charisma will get you a long way. There's a reason most famous actors are good looking people.
Yep, this phenomenon is studied upon and is termed as the "Halo effect" where people with good looks are treated better by people (people of all genders and age) and vice versa for unattractive people.
@@_abk_3251 you mean two genders
Then Gates is a gargantuan exception to both looks and charisma…
@@lads.7715 Looks don’t play as much a part in Business as it does in the normal job market.
I've always loved the quote "Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity". Many people have "lucky" moments that they are not prepared to take advantage of, and often never even recognize them as lucky, simply because they weren't in a position to take advantage of them. I'm sure there were plenty other people in Gates school that never took advantage of those computers and therefore never experienced the "luck" it provided in future events. Bill did.
You are so unique
Nah, even the fact of being prepared is luck. you're prepared based on what happened to you, your friends, and your growing environment, your parents, your genes, etc..
Finally when you decide to prepare your self, all your life experience made you do your preparation, and you were lucky enough to meet the right people, to have the right family etc..
You are so right. Back in the mid 1980s I was in college and went to a political event supporting a transportation bill. There I met a gentleman who asked me some question about what I wanted to and what I was doing. I told him I was in college and studying computer science, that I wanted to work for NASA. Well he gave me his card and told me to contact him at the end of the semester and he would set me up with a Summer internship at NASA. As you stated you need to be prepared when an opportunity drops in your lap. I was not prepared, as I was goofing off and not going to class and it was too late in the semester to bring my grades up. So I couldn't take the offer. I dropped out of college but went back about 10 years late and got a degree with a 3.7 average, but I missed my chance.
people also make the mistake of thinking that their efforts created the luck. You have it right when you say their efforts PREPARED them to take advantage of the luck. Some people never get a lucky break no matter how much effort they put in.
@@user-yt2xv1gs7l wow you literally read my mind I read the original comment and my first thought was your first sentence.
I couldn't agree more. Being born in a low income family means that you have to be super active for luck to smile at you along the way even with good academic records :). In other words you have to work twice as hard as those from high income families.
I say screw families raising their own children. Most of the time they suck at it. Send all children to a facility together to be raised and they will all have equal opportunity. Grade them through academics and physical ability. Assign each a number and forget about birthdays. You might say this is cruel, but to a child raised this way it would just be normal. They can visit their parents again when they're 20, show mom and dad what they made of themselves. Too many entitled teenagers around, they need to grow up.... FASTER.
he was rich went to private school his dad was a big time lawyer
@@Barry-Frank Maybe, but I'm also a frikkin genius.
@@Barry-Frank Yes, I am.
You should apologize for criticizing my greatness. Kneel and kiss the ring!
@@orionthehunter217 you forgot the part that “every child is different and nobody is the same” judging a fish by it climbing ability making you a true clown
As a 44-year-old man that has had a hip and shoulder replacement after 25 years at the same job (20 more Togo) I say fawk hard work give me luck any day of the week
@@throwaway-lh2iw Agreed. It all starts with your mindset. It's wonderful how eye opening it is when you're truly financially educated.
You've had a steady job for 25 years, I'd say that's pretty lucky.
Yeah, you’ll never be successful if you ditch hard work and wait around for luck, because that mindset is not the one of someone who will be able to STAY lucky after getting lucky’
There are people who are way worse than you. But still luck is everything. People like you and I can understand that and not the losers in the comments.
@@kingdon7795 Compare two men, one who sits around and waits for life to give them a lucky hit, or the one who actually goes out and works for his goal, who do you think is gonna win in life? Luck is obtained to those who want it.
Even being able to 'work hard' itself, is also determined by Luck. People with disease, involved in accident, or having a mental disorder sometimes just unable to perform or work as hard as those luckier than them..
yep your talking sense!!
It's not luck that decides your fate. It's thoughty2s mustache
Had me in the first half not gonna lie! 😂
It is disturbing that 150 people found that funny.
@@user-hh2is9kg9j unexpected things are funny sometomes
😁😁
@@user-hh2is9kg9j 192 now, and I'm one of them.
I'm lucky to have been born with a sense of humor 😁
I like to think of life as an RPG myself. Just that I never received the instructions manual and after 33 years of maxing out my fighting skill tree and searching for the next story events realized that I was actually playing an MMORPG, there is no story and all supposed NPCs are actually real people. And I don't even own a headset to talk with them.
Sux to be a well geared tank when everybody is looking for a healer O_o.
This comment is art.
@@iHopeyoure0ffended lmao I feel it dats how I be thinking of life doe
Life is very cruel as everyone is a main character while also being the side character
They’re still NPCs though.
This makes a lot of sense. I was born on Sep 3, just after the school year started so I had to wait basically a whole year to start school. All through school I was always among the very top of all the sports I played and I always knew it was partly because I was developed a whole year above everyone and plus that's all I did throughout my life.
To me success is having my family and loved ones provided for, having a fulfilling job and helping people in need
It's been my observation as well, that children who come from affluence have greater support at home (tutors, perhaps a stay-@-home parent or nanny etc), as well as a greater emphasis on grades & perhaps higher pressure to succeed..
I recall watching a girl in HS literally having a complete mental breakdown in front of the entire class, balling her eyes out, all because she had received a B- for that particular class. She had A's in all of her other classes, of course. Maybe that really IS and should be a big deal in HS, but my personal experience was that my single mom was far too preoccupied with trying to make sure our basic necessities were met, that we weren't getting into serious trouble, and that we were hopefully attending school on a semi-regular basis lol. I feel that if you have money, you have more time to focus on goals which are further out than just today or next week.
Coming from an affluent family , even if you get all C's at school it doesn't matter . Money and "family influence" will get you through University ( even if you just party through it) You will get to know the "right" people. That's what counts if you're looking for money as your standard for success. On the other hand , there is Love . Having a partner to love for your entire life is to me , the luckiest thing you can attain ... as long as you recognize it. lol
The ability to focus on goals that are further out than just today or tomorrow is sometimes called seeing the bigger picture. The sooner someone can recognize that their decisions affect more than just their immediate future and see the potential outcomes from those decisions, the more likely they influence the roll of the dice farther into the future.
How long has it been since that day in high school? How successful are you and if you still know that classmate, how successful is she?
@@Ryedor Knowing the right people is what is meant by saying that luck is the intersection of opportunity and talent.
Do you think it is healthy to cry over one B-?
The RPG thing is pretty spot on in my book. The cards you are dealt. The ones you lose and gain, burn and change, rearrange and reclaim.
Wether you are hardworking or not also is determined by luck mostly. Your outlook on life mostly gets determined by your lifes circumstances, which as this video explains, are determined mostly by luck.
When hardwork meets luck miracles happen. Definitely luck is the main thing that many people still don’t understand yet
Best example is dwayne the rock
Calling it luck makes people mad. Should change it to chance or opportunity.
@@G000POINTBLANK000Dalso some people confuse Luck with gambling...😅
But here is the thing nobody cares about luck cause it doesn't matter, you can't controll it, ao why care about it
Some people never get desired results although they have put maximum hardwork. Luck is everything.
I knew it! Real Life is pay-to-win T_T
Maybe that's why people hate it so much...
they need to shut down the servers fr OwO
RNG + P2W = certain people are granted advantages that others have to earn, or are even completely unable to access, which is the Primary deciding factor in whether an individual perceives life as worth experiencing, and worth continuing. And there's a snowball effect: the better things go early, the better they go later, and the worse things go early, the worse things go later.
While it is technically possible for someone with bad luck and insufficient access to "get lucky," it is extremely uncommon, and is not a viable 'solution' to life's hardships, and does not equate to balance.
@@quantumphantasm6354 yesyes. those are the pre release boni people get by throwing in money early. right. ^_^°
@Krioklon Yap.
Luck plays a big part in life. The reality is that some of us have to make our own luck. Some even more so than others. Unfortunately, these people have to work harder. Sad part is that the hard work benefits the lucky more than it does you.
The comment about success means different things to different people is very important. My grandparents were born just out of the great depression. Their version of success was not to be too poor to eat. They have succeeded and do well for themselves. My mom's version of success was to provide for her 3 kids and have left over money to give us a good Christmas and birthdays. She'll make more money retiring than working. She's successful. Now, my wife and I's goal is to have 0 debt when we retire, including a mortgage, meaning we will have true wealth. It's a journey to get there, but that's our "success".
Hi Thoughty2! I used to watch your videos on repeat in high school back in 2015... It's so good to see that you are doing much better now! I am grateful to catch the train again, your new videos are awesome! Thank you!
14:30 I would argue that it's no coincidence that Frank Jr was born in June when Frank Sr was born in September... ESPECIALLY when you consider that Jr's birthday is exactly 9 months before Sr's birthday... I suspect Jr was the product of his mother's gift for his father's birthday.
Lmao
I dont know I would be very upset if I only got sex on my birthday.
@@christophernewman8741 never get married.
@@StfuFFS lol iv been married 18 years man. Apparently 18 wonderful years.
@@christophernewman8741 wow... then your one of the successful people out there...
....and luckyest
My birthday is August 31st. If I would have been born one day later I would have had to wait a whole other year to start school. I was always the youngest person in my grade and struggled for years until I went to a different school one day, and this school seamed to be a little behind the education level a bit compared to the school I previously attended. It was like I finally caught up (or got held back a year in a sense) So what you say in this video is very true. Thoughty2 has great informative relaxing video I very much enjoy. Keep up the great work!
You're probably a man, so probably doesn't pertain to you. But I once read about a study in the US where a higher number of "birthday cut-off" girls had a higher incidence of becoming teen mothers and high school dropouts. Crazy how illuminating stats can be.
My birthday is 8/19. I had the same experience. Always seemed a step behind the rest when it came to height/ size, fitting in, maturity, dating, driving etc... Then later, in college, being able to go out to the bars with friends. I didn't feel caught up socially until about 22/ 23 years old.
@@ALCRAN2010 That doesn't surprise me. A year longer in human development in adolescence is like 5 years of development in adult years! And for girls, it's more. They mature much faster than their male counterparts. When you couple the vulnerability/ struggle to keep up with the older kids with a girl and the raging hormones/ high risk taking behavior of an older teen boy---- you get a higher rate of teen pregnancy.
"Luck" is an illusion, whether you're talking Bill Gates or anyone else. ALL is fated. "The Book of GOD" at A Course in Truth. That's where you'll find the answer.
If you havent read the outliers book i recommend it. I always wondered why i felt so inadequate. I was born at a disadvantaged age. I was smaller and pucked on too. Once a child thinks that its a brutal self defeating issue. Love you kids . Spend tine with your kids.
I've always praised the wisdom and accuracy of thought some non-school people have shown. In a glimpse, they gather more details and innuendos I could grasp in ten minutes. They see, analyze and make good decisions in a blink of an eye.
People have always considered me above average in intelligence, but my family was basically dirt poor and I was unable to attend secondary school. Hell, they didn't even have the money to let me do any standardized testing that is used for secondary school admissions or scholarship opportunities. Despite that, I have never stopped wanting to learn new things... just more on my own than through the help of others.
Don't trust people. They can be wrong.
"Hey Thoughty2 here"
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Sounds like "oy, oughty too eeah" to me, but maybe I'm just racist against English people.
@@chrisp308 I am definitely not a nationalist. I'm one of those "borders are imaginary lines drawn on a map" people. I'm one of those "if you can't compete with China then that's on you" people. In my mind it's humans vs robots and frankly I'm kind of rooting for the robots......
Your face mask pic says everything we need to know about you....
I just know I’m gonna get hit with multiple knowledge bombs by a British genius
There is yet another factor at work which you didn't mention.
"On average, the poor are taxed and the well to do are subsidized. We in the upper income classes have been very clever at conning the poor suckers at the bottom to pay us nice salaries as bureaucrats and to provide us with nice benefits at their expense."
-- Milton Friedman
Why don't you go read Wealth of Nations instead of virtue signaling by quoting a hack economist?
@@not-a-boar3148 Who hurt you?
@@not-a-boar3148 A rising tide lifts all boats.
If your life sucks it's because you don't adopt a higher burden of self-responsibility and try to blame the rich and powerful for your problems instead of thanking them for creating all the modern miracles and conveniences we enjoy.
I would rather you think I have 'literal garbage pumping through (my) veins' (wow, the salt is palpable) than be ungrateful and petulant.
How did a joke about Friedman's flawed theories of economics embolden you with so much anger, hate and rage?
that quote by friedman is only true because of govt interference where they don't belong. and it is corporatism, not capitalism that allows for this.
@@not-a-boar3148 FIrst of all, Longlostfriend, I consider you a friend and am interested in what each of us can learn from each other. Second I would like to point out that you seem to be making a lot of assumptions about me, my situation, my beliefs and my philosophies off of only a few isolated comments that I have shared. And Pre. Script. (as opposed to Post. Scrpt.) sorry this response basically turned into an essay in length.
On the subject of confucianism, I'm a little unsure how to respond without making a lot of assumptions regarding what you are suggesting but I will do my best to point those assumptions out so we can hopefully be on the same page. First assumption I need to make is that you are talking about China. Second that you believe the statism that is being practiced to control the population is somehow conflated with confucian philosophy. In that respect I would need to disagree and make a third assumption that you may not have read a lot of actual confucian philosophy. There is a lot of wisdom in it. Nothing I could quote that actually refers to a methodology of how to manipulate a population. So while I may agree that the CPC is manipulating their population, I'm not entirely sure what aspect of confucian philosophy is being used to that end.
Furthermore, the actual results of the CPC state based manipulation of their population is something that is far from black and white. I'm a believer in freedom above all else which is why I alluded to Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations in the first place. That being said, the 800+ million people lifted out of absolute poverty in the last half century in China represents that largest upgrade in human quality of life in all history and that is nothing to snub one's nose at.
So when you say the idea of quoting 'a rising tide lifts all boats' is an idea that is rooted in confucian philosophy, I agree. When you say that is somehow virtue signalling, you have kind of lost me there.
Now to the meat of your response, I will certainly not compare my living situation to yours because I believe that would devolve this conversation into a pissing match, however you have obviously assumed your suffering is greater than mine without knowing anything about my personal situation. In particular you have made a broad and incorrect assumption that I have not struggled in my life. For the sake of us getting to know each other better, because you shared some details of your struggles I will share some of mine. I had to have open heart surgery as a teenager, had an ICD unnecessarily implanted that has inappropriately shocked me more than 80 times, both my father and sister died on me at a young age and I have been solely responsible for taking care of my Mom, not to mention countless other close friends I considered family who died in tragic circumstances. I have survived both a multi-year heroin addiction and a multi-year alcohol addiction. My life has not been without suffering and I don't assume anyone's circumstances to suggest that they have lived without their own degree of suffering because, after all, the universe (or God) doesn't give us what we want, it gives us what we can handle.
What I'm suggesting to you, with regards to the degree of your circumstances that you have shared with me, is that focusing on the system as the problem doesn't do you any good. Focusing on what you can realistically do about your situation does. A lot is outside your control so focus on what is in your control. You said you can't get a formal education and you've hit a ceiling in terms of your hourly wage. Focus on trying to learn more about how rich people take advantage of the tax system and how you can stop trading your time for money and be able to set up passive income streams for yourself. The tools the rich use to get rich are accessible to everyone. If you take some time to learn those tools, anyone can achieve wealth. The system is villainized as corrupt but we actually have the greatest tool for wealth generation ever created in history and it is accessible to everyone.
With regards to your cancer, my own health issues have forced me to spend over a decade learning about health a medicine to the extent that people I know ask me for advice instead of their doctor because their doctor just wants to give them a prescription. You can learn how to cure your cancer. Cancer literally requires sugar to grow. Humans can survive without sugar. So if you stop eating sugar immediately and start living off of fat, you will instantly put your cancer into remission. This is indisputable science. Give it a try. You will survive your cancer. Read into this more and educate yourself about how it works. Certainly don't take the word of a random guy in RUclips comments. But maybe start with a book called Shattering the Cancer Myth and another called How To Starve Cancer Without Starving yourself. I have helped several people reverse their cancer but always encourage everyone to do their own research.
The point of all this is in part to hopefully provide you some real value in this discussions, but also to support my initial statements that you personally have the power to change your own situation. Most things are beyond our control but, like a fulcrum, focusing on the few things within our control can create massive change. Trying to demonize the system doesn't help us. Acknowledging its greatness allows us to leverage it to our best advantage.
You have it all down to a tee. Luck DOES have a major contributing factor in our success and well being. I'm the first born Son of the man who was the leader of the first North American aboriginal Heavy Metal band of the 80s to ever record an album commercially, I won every award on every subject in grade 10, my Dad taught me basic electronics at 16 (gave me a booklet on resistors and an electronic multi-tester at 13 when he found me taking apart my little brothers' remote control car), I remember my Mom taught how to play the piano of several church songs at 4 using chords as well, started playing the guitar at 15, played as a replacement lead guitarist for several different bands, I was the best seal hunter in the family from 15, got a job at our government two months after graduating high school, gained a lot of varieties of work experience in a few years one of which is teaching basic computer skills & job searching and some computer repairs, a friend comes to me to repair his musical equipment whenever he breaks something. But life has been very aggressively crushing me so hard that I've come to the point where I suffer from PTSD with absolutely no possible chance for help that I've isolated myself and can only distract myself from my various progressive symptoms of PTSD by playing computer games or chatting online. I'm stuck waiting for the renovation grant I'm most definitely entitled to so that I can start up a home recording studio business in which I have a certificate in Audio Engineering for... My luck is up there amongst one of the worst.
I was born in the beginning of Sept, and I was 21 days early in that too... and in all schooling classes and most ports I was by far the youngest or second youngest kid. I was usually 3/4 a year to 1.5 years younger than all the other kids. I still went on to do all-stars in both baseball and soccer, and club soccer, and everything. League champ all years in varsity wrestling in High School, and placed in state... in the most populated state in the US... California. The single biggest factor I ever noticed growing up was Parents taking coaches out to dinner... and what do you know... their kids are starting line up. Hence I transitioned into Wrestling. Team sports politics are horrible. It's not luck and it's not Talent or effort... it's Politics and money... and Who you know not what you know. So while it might be lucky for the kid... it's the effort and all of the parent, or coach or someone else.
17:26 success is not a cinnamon for wealthy, that's deep man
Can't get rich on donuts. That's a shame. I was gonna go all in on Krispy Kreme shares🙃
exactly what i was gonna say
Synonym, not cinnamon?
Though success and wealth are often the reciprocal spice for the other.
@@thedocklighter no, I replayed it several times. He definitely said cinnamon
@@myscreen2urs I meant that Thoughty2 probably meant to imply "synonym" but instead used "cinnamon", probably for the reason I indicated on the second part of my comment. Not a criticism of what you heard, as I also re-listened a few times.
I love how this video complements the title. It's true, luck is important and still we are going to put in the hardwork first and then we can hope after😌
the wealthy appreciate your hard work. In order to make $10million in a year, you have to be paid $5,000 per hour. I don't think I know anyone whose time is worth $5,000 per hour.
You are right, they make a lot of money through our efforts but the pride that we get from being hardworkers and not being lazy is the one that makes us happy regardless of what's happening in our lives or how unfair the world is.
I really love this video game analogy of yours. Well articulated as always. Thank you for your contents.
Luck depends also on the tools you have to take advantage of it, this is the most overlooked aspect of situational advantage. A lot of the most wealthy men on this world had both the tools and the situations presenting themselves, thus people with higher income and wealth tend to provide their children with a vast array of educational tools in order to use them if an advantagious situations presents itself and that is hard work as well, so one does not precede the other, there's a fluid dance between the two.
Dude, for many of the wealthiest ppl, who weren’t self-made, they just coerced ppl into thinking like them
Nicely done, something we all knew but non of us really want to acknowledge, because as you said, who wants to diminish their hard work and talent
Luck plays a part in all success but readiness an preparation also helps!
Oh + knowing the right people doesn't hurt!
knowing the right people is part of luck.
Luck is the sum total of what you don't control that affects you. That's huge. What you control is miniscule compared to everything that can derail your life. That's no excuse to curl up into a fetal position and blame the world for everything. It just means you have to be prepared to try to get ahead in the world through multiple failures. Eventually, if you're not particularly unlucky, you will succeed to some acceptable degree.
when luck opens a door, are you bold enough to step through? Sometimes you don't even have to be ready, you just take a blind leap and hope for the best.
99.9% luck and knowing people. 0.1% everything else. Please keep in mind there is a 0.1% margin of error.
@@timq6224 Lol, yeah except usually it's a looney tunes episode and the only thing behind the door is a straight plunge into the abyss.
Being born with a good brain is also something many people don't take into account when calculating their own luck. I'm fortunate to not have chronic depression, that would certainly be a killer to my drive. Being born in a wealthy country, and in this time period, along with hundreds of other things.
Like what about people born deaf or blind or both, they will have a real hard time (though there are implants which allow you to hear, but even those are luck based because maybe you are born in a poor country without that technology) or other disabilities, mental and physical. Imo everything in life can be tied in some way to luck
Like what about people born deaf or blind or both, they will have a real hard time (though there are implants which allow you to hear, but even those are luck based because maybe you are born in a poor country without that technology) or other disabilities, mental and physical. Imo everything in life can be tied in some way to luck
@garrett. This guy gets it. See you on the other side brother.
It also mostly depend, what childhood did you had
A friend of mine from work suggested your videos to me a few months ago. I can honestly say that I’ve seen all of them now. They are engaging and fun to watch/listen to.
I've read the Gladwell book but at the time it didn't occur to me that I've benefitted from it myself, I always felt held back due to my age. What a paradigm shift, shit. This is going into my gratitude journal tonight 😳😳😳
In the whole end , lucky or not , it feels better when you know you did all you could and the opportunity never came , rather then when there was an opportunity but you weren't prepared or didn't work hard to catch that opportunity.
Because it's easier to accept that it's somebody's fault rather than yours .
"Luck is when opportunity meets preparation."
Opportunity arises most when one has surrendered resistance to change.
Good luck.
A very wise message
Lucky people say this and it's not true! Did you decide your sex? eye color? hair color? place of birth. Luck is everything and requires no prep.
This nigga literally said good luck. Exactly! Good "luck"! Luck!
As an almost pro football player totally can agree that without luck you can’t go far…at 14 y/o I had a pre contract with my local football team (basically coz I was underage I could not get a contract..and a pre contract was a way to tie young talents down so no other team could come and get em) and 2 weeks later in a friendly game 1 kid tackled me so hard that he almost split my leg in 2..few hours later my doctor told me that I would never recover 100% and should forget about professional football
Just found your channel and you upload as soon as I find it haha keep up the good work.
I think it's important to be careful when crediting luck to most of life's failures or successes. It can cause you to either discredit the skills and passions of others, or it can cause a self-fulfilling prophecy and a mentality of "well you need to be lucky to succeed so why even try" which doesn't benefit anyone. As someone who has grown up in poverty with a single mom, and now makes a comfortable living, I've seen so many people more talented than me, more lucky with richer and more supportive families fail because of their own shortcomings. I could have easily given in, told myself that I'd never make it because I'm just unlucky. But I live my life like all my choices matter, because so far they have - and they do. And so do yours.
Yea, your story actually fits most working people today. I too was raised in a single mom household on welfare and worked my way out of it. You are correct about mindset, but the truth is anybody can do what I did or what you did. What it takes is a morale compass. You have to understand that your situation is only temporary and that with hard work and honesty you can improve your situation. This has more to do with your upbringing than your financial circumstance at the time. Luck is where your employer sees your worth and rewards it. I am very unlucky in that regard. Sucks, but that's life. Oh well, you never get out alive anyway.
Spot on.
This was an excellent take on the game of life. Thanks Thoughty!
17:26 "success is not a cinnamon for wealthy" 😆 I think SYNONYM was the word you were looking for there haha - loved the video! 🙂
Can't understand why Rogue and Accountant were mentioned as separate entities.
Wisdom is key. Having the talent to do very well at a thing and being lucky enough to have an opportunity to do it won't save you from making bad choices and squandering your talent and luck in favor of some other interest at the time. Qualities like ambition, value structure, perseverance, and independence are important catalysts for turning the fertile ground of raw talent and dumb luck into choices which lead to success.
Love your vids, dude! So much growth over the years!
@CDXX Especially, on his upper lip! 😛
16:37 Try this definition: "Luck is what losers call the union of opportunity and preparation". Being in a top school surely catapulted Gates, but there had to be something to catapult in the first place. The true "luck" is that opportunity crosses the paths of people already better off more often than the path of those that are less well off, plus this first group of people are usually better prepared to do something with their opportunities.
Past a point, hard work only gives diminishing returns.
Gates worked hella, but also worked smart and had different ideas.
I’ve always said the biggest part of being successful or rich or whatever is getting “lucky”
I’ve climbed high heights without going through the usual channels, I wasn’t rich or especially intelligent, but I spearheaded my way upwards through determination, grit and the willingness to sacrifice. I went from high school to the army to college and now I’m on my way to making six figures as a skilled labor electrical lineman
OK 120 hours a week is absolutely incredible amount of work to be doing even if it’s not physical and mental I worked 80 hours a week for probably three years and it was not easy I really got a tip my hat to him on that one
I’ve done some 80-100 hours a week and I didn’t get paid enough for it. I got recognized for “thanks for your hard work” , but not much came after that. It is definitely something that I am probably happier with a “normal” 40-50 hr week. With all the spit light and critics on your case probably is also not the most fun thing.
This is so true. In my son's class the ones that were born just after September are doing much better in sports and are more intelligent (they can read more complex books earlier). The ones that are least confidant were born in July and August, this must have something to do with the difference in how old they are. Obviously this gap shrinks as they get older but I couldn't help but wonder how much the initial difference would affect their future.
My father enrolled me into school for the 1st grade when I was 6 yo, and in my country you should be at least 7 for that.
I.e., I was up to 1 and a half year younger than the others in my class.
All my classmates were taller, stronger and more developed, I was just a smaller/defenseless child and because of depression started to eat compulsively (turned obese). I suffered bullying for 10 years straight.
I never got over my weight problem and the lack of confidence.
I've been fighting depression to this day (I'm 36 now)
That’s awful man. I’m really sorry it worked out like that for you.
@@rollovaughan Thanks bro. The reason I'm telling this here is to emphasise the point of this video, of how impactful the age difference between kids in school can be.
I believe you have delved into a much deeper subject with so many if, ands, buts, to could’ve, would’ve, should’ve, moments in one person’s life that unless a time machine is available* are most definitely out of one persons control..Still makes good points & a very informative video on the science of luck* Forever a fan of your research! #Thoughty2 💭✌️❤️
Your content always cheers me up 😊 thank you
Fascinating! One of the most interesting videos I've seen - thanks Thoughty 2.
Edit: I just thought of one exception. Mark Cuban began life poor and look how hard work turned out for him.
And a bit of luck to become the exception
I have heard a handful of successful corporate leaders claim that they weren't good in school at all.
Another thing they have in common is that they failed several times before succeeding.
But through determination and hard work (like working 100-hour weeks...) they eventually got at least the money they sought.
My personal view is that hard work gives you opportunities but you still need to be lucky to capitalize the opportunity.
thank you, so encouraging exactly what i needed to hear
Thoughty2 your Talent is being a good story teller and presenter.
All the way from South Africa.
Your cutoff dates are very spot on even from someone living on the west coast of the USA. But they’re also kind of circumstantial. Where I live. The “cutoff date” for joining school was actually August 31st. I was born July 27th. So I was one of the youngest kids in my class. Yet I graduated 1 term into my senior year. I was just barely 17. Still had 7-8 months of school left to graduate with “my class” (I took the opportunity to NOT do that, and get on with my life.) I had already been working at 14 years old (I’m 30 now. Started In The restaurant industry.) not sure what I want to do with my life, I took some college courses… earlier then I should’ve, and decided I would go for management. I got a HTM degree (Hospitality and Tourism Management) which I could’ve managed a whole grip of things between a simple convenient store, a restaurant, or an ENTIRE FUCKING AIRPORT… I settled for becoming an Executive Chef at a Country Club as my first job in management (mainly because I have this really hard time telling a person that they are “right”, remember I. The customer service industry the “CuStOmEr Is AlWaYs RiGhT”… trust me… 95% of the time… you’re not.) so I took a management job where I didn’t have to actually deal with guests outside of putting on a chef coat and standing there looking pretty when it was time to “show face” to the people. I mostly just dealt with the 20 employees I had and that was much nicer, granted I can be a bit of a dick, but they also realized that even when I was “being a dick” a lot of it was just playful kitchen banter and I wasn’t actually attacking them. It was a much more laid back experience, forming a kind of family bond with these people. A lot of them have worked for me off and on over the years. I do t expect them to stay, but I always told them if they ever needed a job, even if it’s just to hold over while they look for a new job, and they find something they want to do. I’ll be there for them. Im never one to hate on someone for trying to find something better in their lives. And no manager should ever hate on or be disappointed that someone has found something that might make their lives better, so if you find something better, take it, I have even had to talk a few people into moving on because the owner was unwilling to budge and told them they’d always be welcome back. Hell since the start even a few have stuck around and followed me since I started being Executive Chef. It makes me happy to have people loyal. But that’s why I say what I say. Because I’m loyal to them as well. I would NEVER stop someone from doing something that could even have the slightest HINT of bettering their own lives.
we have the same birthday ✌✌twin fr
I think that I was lucky in some ways just as well as very unlucky in other portions of my life. Making bad choices as well as good ones have as well have led me to where I am.
Success is being at the right place at the right moment.... that's beyond anyone's own control...
Always a thumbs up this guy! I hit the button before the vide starts because I know I’m gonna love it! @Thoughty2!!
"Victory awaits him, who has everything in order-luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions-bad luck we call it" Roald Amundsen- first man to reach the South Pole. (fun fact: his childhood home is just a short drive from my house)
you mean the "south ring" =P
@@timq6224 South pole bro, don't get into that whole flat earth thing.
Through the years Thoughty2 went from the annoying boy in class to the finest gentleman on RUclips. Thanks for the countless hours of stories and entertainment.
Growing up there was a "saying" I heard: 'Tis better to be lucky than good. Luck can and does happen to anyone, all the time; but you may not have enough time to become good enough, let alone better.
How true. I went thru primary school in the 1970's, and I have a December birthday. As our school year follows the calendar year, I started school, year 1, only two months after I turned 5. Which means I started year 12 only two months after I turned 16. Today, if I was a child, I would be 6 when I started prep and 7 when I started year 1. So today, in our modern school system, students are almost, if not actually 18 when they are in year 12. I struggled, not to pass or do well, but I did struggle to do well enough to get into University. I was smart - even tho I was always the youngest in my classes, and also the tallest, and in advanced math and science classes. But I did not do well enough to get into university or college. I actually did Matric 3 times to get into university...and I came to understand success in life is opportunity combined with means PLUS hard work - that is how luck actually happens. Opportunity, means or ability and the brains to see an opportunity when it comes. Missed opportunities are one thing people will often say they regret in life.
As an American, I feel you. I love when the FIFA World Cup is happening and people are so used to hearing football on broadcasts that they don’t yell at me when I use it too
Fütbol be damned, I call it soccer
The irony is that they call it soccer in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, AND the UK. There are like a half dozen UK tv shows with the name Soccer in the title, but they always seem to forget that. Plus the Brits coined the term soccer in the first place. lol
An evil genius. Ask yourself what good intentions he could have with buying up all of the farmlands.
True
To prevent someone else from turning them into parking lots.
To grow cannabis. And he's got my full support. Ill get the job of testing that shit out, sampling it, grading it, abusing it. Bloody genius alright.
Him and buffet heavily invested in railroads. You think they aren't planning high speed rails?
@@tripptank lemme get whatever you're smoking.
Opportunity is when hard work meets luck
Garbled quote and still wrong. Luck does not require any effort, that's why it's luck
I think both “hard work” and “luck” are such vast oversimplifications of what goes into success. And I think success is too often associated with wealth and status rather than and individual fulfillment. I know many “successful” people who don’t feel very successful once you learn about their personal lives and behavior
Folks, it's still WHO you know, not what you know. Gates is lucky he's still topside....
@@Brent-ln9bc I think that if we were more aware we would find out that ALL the billionaire men were friends with Epstein. We know that the whole political class was in on it, from Clinton to Trump. And even if it's not Epstein specifically, I'm sure they all satisfy their exotic tastes in various unscrupulous ways. And I'll bet if you or I were elevated into the Big Club we would do the same shit. Such is society. Squid games for all! Except that some play while a very few only watch.
His luck will run out when the Epstein case gets out.
Ge mainly gets lucky with children like his buddy ep
Yea it's all about WHO Gates know,WHO is he connected with and WHO is he investing in hehehe....I see what you did there sir :)
Luck is who you know, just as to whom you are born to is also luck--and I agree.
Luck is defined when preparedness meets opportunity...(Earl nightingale)🙂
Nah
Luck requires precisely zero reparation.
Luck requires actually putting on the lotto to be lucky enough to win it
You've been lucky to have been born in a country with internet
I'm lucky to be alive...
I noticed this when I was in the 5th grade at a hard school. We had a colleague who was born in December and started school a year later because of this. He got a bad grade on the first Biology hearing because he didn't prepare but after that he got straight 10's on every class and topic. He was obviously more mature and understood topics easier than the rest of us. I wonder what happened to him after highschool.
Another thing to consider is that most people are born in September since parents conceive their kids after the Christmas feast and new year drunk party and the "new year new me/goal".
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Excellent. The most substantial point was mentioning that success ought not be so vehemently linked to wealth/income. But that's exactly what is drilled into people early and often. Few ever question it. And the luck aspect...there are plenty of high-intelligence, hard workers who never achieve any significant gains in wealth. The world is full of those. But those stories don't sell. As such, this results in a selection bias.
Great video, I agree with every point included the summation. Martin Lewis, the U.K.'s money guru says that luck is one of the main factors in success.
Or having rich parents, like Bill.
@@thursoberwick1948 And lying, like he did to IBM, that they had an OS in development. And lend 50k from his mom to buy QDOS. Gary Kildall should have had all that fame and fortune. He created CP/M what QDOS was a basically a stolen clone. He worked hard and creatively to create that.
Luck is when opportunity meets preparation, so yeah, luck is important but you also have to be capable of seeing those provided by luck opportunities and taking advantage of them
This is something lucky people repeat ad nauseum. If a terrorist plans to blow up a 747, but the chemicals in his shoes fail. the whole flight survives! They were lucky. You honestly think that the couple in the bathroom fu*cking or people napping were prepared for any kind of opportunity? Such nonsense!
@@mediacenterman8583 that's not consistently repeatable tho, personally I'd rather minimise the element of chance as much as possible
That was bloody brilliant!
great video.
Puskas' father was a footballer, and a coach... his coach. His father didn't tell him when he played well. Hungary had the best players, strikers and teams in that time. He had some important friends so Real Madrid signed him after he left the country. After 2 years he could continue his career and became a legend of Real.
It's maybe 5-6 years that I'm watching every single video and I just want to say thank you for the quality content 💖
He is lucky he hasn’t been arrested regarding the Epstein case yet 👀
And the test vaccine in India that killed several 100s of kids and injured many more. A vaccine that he funded and pushed the development and trials on.
Among other things. He's into eugenics, as well.
@@Krullmatic scary shit! I hate those people, we have seen how that ended in the 40s.
@@CallousCoder Indeed!
Its disgusting how little media want to talk about the biggest sex trafficking incident of pretty much the century. Implicating the richest of the rich, the connected and the wealthy.... Prince andrew....the clintons....gates....politicians and hollywood stars.
I always hate it when youtubers want to act like it all doesnt matter. Especially when they have made a video detailing the life of one of the most well known names connected to Epstein. Like it all never happened and Bill Gates is a squeeky clean guy.
Never forget boys that Epstein was killed by his cohorts to protect his cohorts. The people who didn't watch him in his cell were fully acquited.
They're still out there. Billionaires and millionaires who took part in the most sadistic acts humanly possible. Safe. With pretty much no one on their back. 99% of people don't even think a rich person could get away with pedophilia which explains to me why they get away with it.
Its like the general public do PR for elites now.
Well researched. Good visual language. Subscribed.
Great episode. I thought he's gonna pull Thoughty2 on this and say "no" to Luck.
This whole "luck" thing is part of the Karmic processes OR quantum entanglement of our past-present-future energies. Believe it or not.
Karma is more complicated than causation and effect (hard for you and I as normal human beings to comprehend with our brains' current processing power). Karma is driven by the main mental energy, "Intention". Even if you do good things, your intentions will create countless versions of outcomes. Basically, Karma is created by the process of an action. Not JUST an outcome of an action. Plus, there's the reincarnation thing that some of you don't believe; it has to do a lot with why many corrupted humans are in good positions at some point in their lives.
Chance is nothing but Karmic force. And yes, we have almost full control of our present and future Karma
wholeheartedly agree bro.
this man was put on earth to bless us all with these amazing videos, fact.
I’ve been saying this for years, but in a slightly different argument.
Due to the presence of “chance” or “luck” however you want to call it, no matter how much we try, Equality is impossible. We can do our best to ensure everyone has a fair chance, and try to help those who are less well off, but chance will always cause some people to have better starts in life than others, or some to have amazing events happen in the middle of their lives.
Some folks roll snake eyes, while others roll Nat 20’s. The majority are somewhere in between.
The BEST work by this intriguing presenter!
LUCK is a factor!
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca
That's something people with luck say lol. If you're unlucky, opportunity will never come, or if it does, it's just a false beacon. Something to make you think things are finally turning around just so it can all be ripped away later.
@@fuzzypanda1684 if u are unlucky u already be dead. u are always lucky. some ppl are more luckier than others
@@QWERTY-gp8fd Well, what you're saying is true for most people, but for me, it's the opposite. I can't wait to die and be done with this, I wish and pray for it every day.
@@fuzzypanda1684do u have an Instagram or Twitter or WhatsApp so we can talk…?
not really, luck is any outside variable you have no control over, and even then its how you percieve your opportunities. like for example, if I got rejected from some job because the employers were randomly choosing people I could think of myself as lucky because i had already been accepted somewhere else and I wouldn't have to go through the process of coming up with a decision.
I don't know if he is the luckiest, but he damn sure is one of the most evil men alive. A regular James Bond villain......
Hes the luckiest because upto now... noone has knocked the F outta him yet. 🤣🤣🤣
@@MrJC1 To get to him you will have to get through a half dozen ex navy seals. Maybe more. I bet the man is guarded better then Fort Knox. He is safe as can be...until the day his own security turns on him. It will happen, but by then it won't matter much to the rest of us.
@@MrJC1 agreed
He is not evil
@@pernybergsund885 You, know nothing about Bill Gates to make a comment like that!
These days, hard work has no value and no payoff.
Wrong. And that is definitely NOT what this video shows.
Depends on environment. Think the "it's who you know" networking fad is bs. Those that can be more qualified is beat out those less qualified because they're friends/family of someone in the company. Also the favoring of certain demographic just to make your company diverse is shady at best (race surveys only should be on medical forms to diagnose common diseases)
People should be hired based on their ability. That's why we see corporate corruption and why we are not advancing fast enough. Why don't we have flying cars yet?
@@e3vL1 We don't have flying cars yet because fly cars cannot be made to be practical. (We've had flying cars for well over a half century ... they're just not practical.)
@@ThatBoomerDude56 maybe we don't have a larger vision for it yet.
Electric cars were also overlooked for a long time
@@e3vL1 Electric cars just need a more ubiquitous power source and somewhat better batteries for a type of vehicle that's as old as the first automobiles.
Flying cars have an inherent conflict between contradictory laws of physics for the two different applications.
This is possibly the best video I have watched all year - seriously well put together!
Great video, as usual!
Most sports in the USA are done by birthyear. My daughter is a January 2010 and is usually one of the oldest on her teams. There are players who have December 2009 birth years who are the youngest. Only 2-3 weeks difference in their ages but they play with different kids. I'm extremely happy she has a good sports birthday!
I saw another video about how when you were born determines your success. This is one of the examples.
I was in Italy looking after my mom that was sick and i was waiting for a job that i had applied. On October 5 my phone broke down and i had everything on there and it was the only way to know if i had won the job or not. After i fixed my phone on October 7 i learned that on October 6 the state emailed me to confirm the job but since the policy was to answer within 24h i lost tthe position and now im between jobs waiting for the next email. So yeah i think luck is a big part of our life tbh
Probably one of the best videos.
Lol cracked me up when you stopped saying soccer lol
Very cool video as always. Big fan of you here buddy.