Zkuq on 28 August 2020
All of them. I work hard (enough) where it matters, I also seem to have some talent (although the older I get, the more hard work seems to matter over talent), and finally there's also a good amount of luck:
- I wasn't born in very bad conditions or had to live under them.
- I wasn't really bullied (enough for it to matter anyway).
- There wasn't anything else that would seriously have affected my mental health.
- I'm physically healthy and never got into any serious accidents that could really endanger my health.
- I would probably have to attribute something to my upbringing as well. It has probably affected some of my choices and what kind of a person I am.
- I have my flaws (as does everyone), but the way I just happen to me is also probably at least partially because of luck.
- In university, I started with physics as my main. I was unlucky in that I switched to information technology later, but as luck would allow, I would later get a trainee position largely thanks to my physics studies. I believe this lucky chance made it much easier for me to get my next trainee position and, in turn, later get actually employed. This is probably the only major lucky 'incident' I can recall that got me where I am right now.
So yeah, it's probably mostly luck in the sense that luck is what gives me the base on which to, well, base everything. If I wasn't lucky, I might have to put a lot of hard work into other things, e.g. mental health. And finally, I also consider talent to be luck as well: If I'm not talented, it's hardly my fault, but if I am, it's hardly because of what I've done, right? Not much room for anything else than luck in regard to talent, I think.
tl;dr: Hard work, with its base on luck. Without luck, hard work might just go to waste.
