How much does luck influence a person’s life?

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Probability makes those determinations, but maybe your probability is based in luck?
 
Depends if you count opportunity as luck. I think alot of my success is luck/rightplace-righttime, but you couldn't do the things i did if you were a retarded vegetable so i obviously put in work for it.

Probably a low, borderline moderate amount. "success" in India is probably like low-class living in the US as well, so if you count your birth circumstances as luck, theres that.
 
Favourable results of probability obviously helps someone's life, from little to tremendously, your question is kind of vague.

And this is for every aspect in life, such as genetics, the household you were born into, your parents, your opportunities and career path, little things like meeting important people in your life, getting hired and changing the place you live in, etc. Every single aspect in life has a myriad of major and minor outcomes, so the level of importance depends on the particular life, the metaphorical equation is too complex to formulate for everyone in general.

I'd say some of the most important aspects are where you were born into, genetics, and your household/parents. It's not the same being a normal person with loving parents in the US, as opposed to being a mistreated by your own family & ugly person in some shithole of Asia. And this comes down to """luck""".
 
"The two Prime Movers of the Universe are time and luck."-Kurt Vonnegut
 
It affects you in the biggest way at birth because that determines what you have to work with.
each of you had like 20% probability of being born indian
And an 18% probability of being born a nigger.

And even if you're born as one of the races that actually pushes humanity forward, you have a high chance of being born a child of someone like Ethan Ralph because dumb fucks have more kids than smart fucks.
 
When you consider how heritable IQ is (very), luck makes all the difference in the world before you're even born. If you come out of the womb with 75 IQ, all the dogged determination in the world is very unlikely to improve your life prospects.
 
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