Why The Luckier You Are The Less Successful You Become

What would life look like if you were able to take one crazy shot at anything you truly want and you get it?

You know what I'm talking about...

That one thing that you've always wanted to have but it's so far out of touch you don't even share the desire with your closest friends.

That one thing that you secretly take a swing at hoping and praying that you would get a miracle.

For some of us, it's applying to a job that we're severely underqualified for.

For others, it's shooting your shot in the DMs to the most attractive girl on your Instagram timeline.

And for some it's as simple as entering McDonald's Million Dollar Monopoly sweepstakes by buying a large drink and fries.

I'm sure you're just imagining it now.

I'd get everything else I wanted and I'd have absolutely zero worries.

Life would be good.

If only I could get lucky just one time.

The reality is, if you did hit that one in a billion shot, you'd be ecstatic for a while but slowly in the background something very sinister would be happening.

All it takes is one lucky win, to turn your life into the hellscape from your worst nightmares.

Sadly, the truth is luck is a curse not a blessing.

With the Powerball jackpot reaching a staggering 1.5 billion dollars at this very moment, it's hard to think of being lucky as anything but the answer to all your problems.

But it's not.

When you're lucky you are winning from the result of zero actions on your part.

The effort, the grind, the lessons, the growth you acquire with REAL wins, is nonexistent with lucky ones.

Luck is a result of statistics not drive, talent, or even uniqueness.

The worst reality you could live in this world is tasting success and then never being able to reach it again.

And while it's not impossible to get lucky at the same thing twice, it's absolutely improbable.

Statistics works both ways.

If you want real joy and growth, you should be searching for the wins that you can proudly say you earned...no matter how small they may be.

Imagine a basketball player that hit's a one in billion shot in a game once, but could never reliably do it again.

They're virtually useless.

Or maybe someone that builds a billion dollar business and makes all their investors rich. But only because they happened to be selling sanitizer when a global pandemic hit. And they could never ever build a profitable business again.

Useless. They might as well retire.

Or if you're an artist, that gets one viral song on tiktok but you eventually become the truest version of a one hit wonder.

How sad.

If you can't reliably say, I can recreate this success, then did you even really succeed?

Of course getting lucky with a killer box office hit, or a number one song on the Billboard music charts will feel amazing!

But will the high of those 5 minutes of success, outweigh the low of never finding success again?

Luck is a poison.

A drug with a fast high but an even deeper darker come down.

Don't make lucky swings praying for a grand slam.

Practice consistent swings where you get a foot on base.

The best in the world don't hope to be lucky, they practice to be bet...

In progress,

Tim

P.S. - Please don't let my little essay stop you from winning 1.5 billion dollars. That's an ungodly amount of money!