Success. Is it Luck or Hardwork?

Apollo Iragaba
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Origins of the pop

Success. Is it Luck or Hardwork is one of pop culture’s biggest questions which has grew often in popularity the millennial and gen Z culture in the decade 2010 to 2020. It is still one of the fascination that pop internet culture love to debate about by offering percentage to luck and hard work for their contribution to Success.

How it joined pop culture

With the rise of social media, there was rise of new and emerging sources of information which new generations connected to in such for truth when need. The new stars internet created from various sources in tik tok and YouTube there are new people who the new generation trusted for advice on success with new branding that was on success. The creator on podcasts, tik tok, and YouTube in the need to be honest provided audience of how they gained their success arguing that Luck truthfully was part of how they achieved it. This led people to question the contribution of hard work to success.

Luck or hard work internet beliefs

With the topic being a pop culture topic you know there will be arguments always but the question has not fully been answered with the popular percentage distribution being Luck 30% and Hardwork 70% contribution to someone’s success AND LUCK 20% AND HARDWORK 80%. This is not true but it is what pop culture has adopted from the various evolution stages of the internet.

Arguments

Veritasium a popular scientist argued with the concept of egocentric bias where believe they do more than they do because they are involved in the actions of their contribution. He also acknowledge the contribution of luck in different factors for example the country you are born in.

So is it Luck or hard work

This will remain unanswered question and argument just like GOAT, greatest of all time debates but the truth is that both factors are key. Take a look at you u own this phone you are using to read you really worked to get it but d0oo you think you would own it if you were born in a village in a developing country and wo0uld you own it if you did work towards getting it by either buying it or asking for it from a guardian? These two questions show you how these two factors are both in important.

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