This post isn’t just about luck, it’s also about Risk, and that is what I was talking about in relation to the Champions League Final. I was saying that Alex Ferguson made a risky decision that didn’t even seem like it could pay off. Barcelona wasn’t lucky, only in the case that they were lucky that they started a great “cantera” decades ago or something like that which got them most of the players they have now.
When it comes to Naked Wines, I am very lucky, and having the opportunity to go for that position I attribute solely to luck, using it was a little harder work. The guy I hosted, he lives in the next building to us in Portugal (also had my mum as an architect) and he didn’t buy the house at the start, he bought it a few years later when the owner was reselling it, and he didn’t even know the best advantages of the house when the owner sold it to him, because he wasn’t told. The fact that we met him, thus, was lucky. And from that point on we had to befriend him, get to know him, want him over at our house in London…Also, the only reason I went to LIWF was because I’d already finished uni for that year. And on top of that I missed a whole day because I didn’t get out of bed early enough. It was many factors where I was lucky, to have a friend who could invite me, to go there at all, to meet the winemaker, to see the name tag, to go to the dinner, etc. I believe that this is luck, it’s too many chance encounters to be fate, too many small things bits and pieces. The hard work came later, and it wasn’t what got me the opportunity to apply, but only clinched it for me. The connections I had were only luckily got in the first place. And I didn’t fuck it up.
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]]>When you mention the Champions League final, I don’t count Barcelona as lucky because they won. No matter who played in that game, what decisions were made, and how awful Man Utd lost, it’s not luck. It’s skill mixed in with bad and good decisions on the coaches’ parts.
You mentioned Naked Wines and how lucky you are to have hosted a dear friend of yours who went to London for the fair. I don’t see that as luck. I see it as knowing the right people. Look at your life, Ben, and I do not mean this in a terrible way in the least. Just take a look at your life and where you are right now. Do you truly think that parts of who you are and where you are right now are because of luck? I do believe you worked hard to get to where you are, but what your future holds also lies in the fact that you know people and you have great connections.
Sometimes it’s a comforting feeling to believe in something such as luck, but I don’t think we have luck to thank when something great happens.
I do say “I have such bad luck” but it’s become something so often used that for me it’s just a saying, and very little meaning behind it.
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]]>good story, huh?) and i have loads of these in my pocket. the same for example is for me and Italy lol – by chance) that’s how I live) and dunno why it happens all the time but am used to it)
]]>moreover making such claims in a part of his image) the same as Berlusconi and women. some people like it.
in football the policy is also important. you have to sacrifice smth less important in order to achieve more benefit. unfortunately benefit is everything in our world. *sob*
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