Your thoughts about luck in business

[Dkillo]

I believe in good luck, bad luck, good breaks and bad. I've seen it in sports growing up, in business, and personally experienced it in life (I won't bore you with those details right now but let's just say I'm one of the unluckiest people on the planet according to one of my past doctors).

It's great when you experience good luck. Life is great.

Life education begins when you experience bad luck and how you handle it. I've seen it in sports many times over (my main sport growing up was baseball). You'd see a team that is leading by a lot of runs during a game. Some players may be celebrating a bit too early. A bad hop here, an overthrow there and suddenly the team that's leading suddenly isn't so cocky. The team making the comeback suddenly has life. Soon the players who were celebrating earlier now start bickering back and forth. Nothing can be done to stop the comeback and they wind up losing the game.

I've played on teams that were on both sides of that scenario.

We all deal with good and bad luck. The important thing is not letting the bad breaks tear you down and stop you in your tracks. Learn, adapt and live on.