Persistence and luck

The author Charles Bukowski once wrote, ‘People who solved things had lots of persistence and some good luck. If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. However, most people couldn’t wait on the luck, so they quit.’

You’ll have heard variations of this phrase e.g. ‘the harder you work, the luckier you are’, ‘the 15-year overnight success story’ and so on. Yet, the point being made is a good one.

If you have a good idea or a way of working that you think could benefit others, then it pays to persist. Keep evolving the idea, make it easy to copy or share and one day - when you least expect it - the ‘luck’ will come your way.

 

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Colin Ellis

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