Re: Which is more important to achieving success--luck or hard work?
but you still need some luck.
Re: Which is more important to achieving success--luck or hard work?
Luck helps to create opportunities, but you need hard work to grab with your both hands.
Re: Which is more important to achieving success--luck or hard work?
Peace
Success should never be measured as achievement ... Fame and Fortune are tests just as much as having no fame or fortune are tests ... However achievement is seen as a form of worldly success or at least it is seen as an advantage.
For those who put effort in their works they may or may not acheive, for those who have a natural advantage which is to be naturally charming, born in a rich family or clever without effort they can achieve much, but at the same time may not utilise their advantage to achieve anything.
This is different to chance or luck ... Having a background in an advantage is the nurturing or natural position for different individuals this often plays a bigger part in "worldly success" than both effort and luck ... The way luck differs from the "natural position of advantage" is when a person's disposition miraculously changes ... commonly stated as "his luck changed" ...
Reward is often stated as "hard earned money" - that is often seen as being more fulfiliing on value for money basis as well as a spiritual basis ... Truly the confusion for success is over the two terms "hard-earned" or "money" ... I believe it is far more sensible to place our idea of success in the concept of "hard-earned" and not "money" ... because in some cases hard work will not lead to money ... and in other cases no effort leads to money ... but hard work always leads to a sense of spiritual fulfilment in a manner that "money" itself is distanced from.
True success is the ability to utilise ones skills and abilities optimally ... it has nothing to do with financial gain ... financial, reputation or other worldy increase is merely "a token of encouragement" ...
Unfortunately, in life on this Earth we pitch ourselves against each other on how much we have ... not on how much we do