in relevance to job/career/life in general..
Shit I voted for hard work, but can’t take it back. Honestly the work required isn’t hard and luck can offset anything. You get lucky to get a recruiter on your LinkedIn, the team luckily asks you the leetcode questions youve done before, you luckily interview with a team where you get along well with the interviewers. And grinding leetcode for 100s of hours isnt hard work, it just take a tiny bit of dedication, but even “dedication” is a little strong here.
I believe you can offset luck by making your own luck. Going out of your way to make connections, practicing LC, interviewing a lot, all that good stuff
Being born into good circumstances is the best predictor of success. So, luck.
Lucky people tend to underestimate luck, while unlucky people think that everything is due to luck. “It seems the harder I work, the more luck I have.” Thomas Jefferson.
Everyone dependent on a visa are going to vote for luck.
Initiative. Some call it making your own luck through hard work, but reality is that there's still chance and that you don't have to work that hard to expose yourself to the best of it.
I think part of it is also working smart so you don't have to work hard
Hard work, but know how to bullshit.
Persistence, then luck. You need the persistence to build bridges even when you are not rewarded immediately. Then occasionally luck strikes and you get rewarded big from one of the bridges you’ve built
Working hard is a choice all of us are afforded. Luck might take you far but hard work always takes you farther.
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