The radical moral implications of luck in human life

[volpri]

I think an interesting question would be if we could switch up the people. Insert the kid who grew up in a good home into an area with very little hope and opportunity, but with all the so called skills about hard work and nurturing. How far can he be expected to get having the right mindset but very little opportunity if he is born in the wrong country/city, born the wrong color, etc.? Likewise, take a kid from some God forgotten place and put him into a nice environment with opportunity.

I bet that if you repeat this experiment 100 times, you would arrive at a highly statistically significant result which shows that in the place of opportunity, your chances of success are so much better, no matter how underprivileged you started, than if you start with the right mindset, but get thrown into a hell hole.

Don’t find blame. Find solutions....Henry Ford

 

[ironchef]

Henry Ford summed it up. “The harder I work the luckier I get”

I would add smarter to harder.

I don't think people connect luck and hard work together. Kylie sure isn't working hard. Maybe on her make up.

I bet that if you repeat this experiment 100 times, you would arrive at a highly statistically significant result which shows that in the place of opportunity, your chances of success are so much better, no matter how underprivileged you started, than if you start with the right mindset, but get thrown into a hell hole.

See the quote from @volpri and @Seaweed .

 

[volpri]

A Soviet prison camp in Siberia. It was there that Natan Sharansky a computer scientist and mathematician who was also dissident was sentenced in 1979 under false charges. While in prison he lived his life undergirded by this principle:

“Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself.”

He realized that nothing they could do, nor his circumstances which he found himself in could, of themselves, deprive him of his self-respect.

Many are the circumstances in life. Good and bad. What counts is how we respond to them. Much like trading.

 

[volpri]

We grow by ourselves. There is no other way. People can decide to be happy or sad and then just become it. They can decide to take responsibilty for their situation and decide to live with it or they can decide to do whatever they have to do to change it. I can’t do it for you and you can’t do it for me.

William Ernest Henley in his poem Invictus: “I am the master of my fate. The captain of my soul.”

 

[volpri]

A body must take responsibility for their life and make it happen.

 

[volpri]

A person only has so much energy. It they use their energy blaming others they are in effect limiting the potential of their own life.

 

[volpri]

A body should never allow the unfairness of life to CONSUME him/her. To do so will detour him from whatever goal he is moving towards. A body generally should just accept the responsibility for the circumstances he finds himself in, and do so, without placing blame. Then accept the responsibility for finding solutions.

 

[volpri]

If one has the capabilities, resources, and knowledge but not the results that can only mean one thing. A lack of responsibility. This applies to many areas of life but especially to trading.

 

[volpri]

How many people blame the circumstances of their life on their job, neighbor, family, friends, town, city, clients, customers, brokerages, mutual funds (especially us traders LOL..I know I’ve done it too), ...etc..even themselves..with all the guilt and pain that goes with the latter? Accept responsibility for getting bogged down in blame ....then move on. A focus on blame should not be ones motivator. A body may or may not be to BLAME for their circumstances but they are responsible for what they DO about it. What one does about their circumstances is their own doing. We live in a society that wants to place blame. That generally will never lift one out of the circumstances. But focus on solutions and become willingly to do within reason, conscience, and legality whatever has to be done to change those circumstances. Success flows from this.

 

[d08]

d08,

The discussioin is realated to a young boy or young girl raised in poverty and the odds of sucess. The odds is very low.

This should be common sense. if you raised by single mom in the ghetto projcets, you start off at the biggest disadvantage in life.

So I watched both of the videos and found them a waste of time.

One is a mother of some kids living in a pretty basic apartment and complaining about a home being "a right" which it's not in most of the world. You don't pay your rent, you will be homeless. I didn't understand what was significant about them at all.

The other is about mostly street hustlers in Louisiana, they hang out on street corners, probably earning an income out of the drug trade and complain why things aren't better. Maybe start with looking at yourselves, dipshits. They expect others to come in, offer then high paying jobs, despite them having no discipline or skills, how does that work?
They keep on ranting about nothing and the video should have not been more than 10 minutes long, ya herr.