Missives from the 6th Floor

It's just all good. Life's really treating us well, and I'm doing my best to take notice of that every day. Sure there's the standard and normal little shit that life throws at you, but really, it's all good.

On a related topic, I've always had this nagging question about how much of success is skill and how much is luck. A couple of my recent reads had me thinking about it again.

After discussion with Dawnise, I think my current theory is that the opportunities life presents you are largely luck - right place, right time, who you know, that sort of thing. You can work to cultivate these opportunities, but I think at best you can have marginal positive impact on the system. You can, of course, have tremendous negative impact - by failing to recognize opportunities, or making bad choices while pursuing them.

In other words, the decisions you make when presented with challenges and opportunities are the skill component to success, and the opportunities are luck. (Where luck means largely outside your direct control.)

Hence the quote "I'd rather be lucky than good."

I think that means that success is measured by what you do when the dice come up snake-eyes, and how you prepare for that eventuality when they're coming up sevens.

So at the moment it's all good, and I'm trying to live in it, and make sure when it stops being all good, it's still pretty good.