Real Life And Lotto

I'm amazed at the parallels between lotto and real life. For example:

- There are countless examples of people who achieve success on a huge scale, simply through persistence. They are simple folk, just like you and I. Yet they have succeeded beyond belief simply by continuing to do what they're good at. In a lotto game, it is also long term persistence which eventually wins. Dale Carnegie, author of "How To Win Friends & Influence People" said: "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." However, this brings us all to another point...

- Success is not that easy. Because there is no one single rule. In fact, many people who have examined the path that millionaires take have found a huge difference between their methods. Most successes are built up from a number of individual talents as actress Sophia Loren pointed out: "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." You might even say that these talents represent lotto balls, and so you can never be sure which ones will roll down the chute to give the winning path.

- Another example: Along with persistence is continuity. Once again, there seems to be no overnight successes, but success in life is often a chosen path that has been traveled over many years. Benjamin Disraeli: "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." In lotto these are the players who, week after week, play the same numbers until luck catches up with them.

So there's three examples of success: persistence, talent selection, determination. The only factor you have no control over is luck. Or do you?

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