Your Luck Will Run Out! I Doubt It
Alright so this is going to be somewhat of a rant so if you don’t want that you may want to stop reading here. If you’re still reading at this point then good luck because this truly is something that makes me truly angry.
When it comes to two things, people tend to attribute positive results with pure luck, those things are success coming from risk and for some reason investing.
True success often comes from risk taking, look at Elon Musk for an example. Not only did he risk jumping into starting a company to begin with but he risked getting into two of the hardest and most unforgiving industries on earth. He took risks and his hard work and risks paid off in a massive way. Yet despite all this success some still say “Oh he was just lucky and that luck will run out”.
This is not an uncommon thought when it comes to success by risk and people just can’t seem to wrap their heads around taking a calculated risk to innovate and further society.
People love to keep things the way they are which makes people who innovate a threat to many peoples way of life. Thus they lash out and call those who took those risks to innovate idiots.
Another reason they lash out is that they are someone who wishes they could do what someone like Elon Musk did but they just can’t seem to find the strength in themselves to do it. Therefore, they choose to try to delegitimize the skill of others in innovating.
Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. -John C. Maxwell
This is especially true when it comes to investing because we have been conditioned as a society to be totally risk averse in our investing. Financial advisors and firms have pitched us low return, high fee investments telling us any higher in return and we’d put our entire savings at risk.
Truly this is not true but I don’t have time in this article to go into the reasons behind this. Thus when others take risks on stocks or real estate and consistently make a fortune, the naysayers say “His/her/they luck must run out sometime soon”.
I wish they could just be happy for others who have made their fortunes on risk but they just can’t imagine someone else succeeding in what they can’t do. If you consistently win by taking risks, IT IS NOT LUCK!
Okay I’m done now thank you for reading my insane ramblings; I just cannot stand the naysaying of the unimaginative. If you want to support me please check out Fluencey.com.
