Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
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This video was inspired by and draws examples from the book "Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy" by Robert H. Frank
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Well I thought it was 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will. 5% pleasure, 50% pain and a 100% reason to remember the name.
You win.
Underrated comment
lmao
This guy gets it.
Turns volume knob to 11/10 for the whole album as it calls out American WWII confinement camps for Japanese Americans....
😂😂😂
reminds me of a meme I once saw: "As a hiring manager, when I get a stack of resume's I immediately throw half of them out. I don't employ unlucky people."
🤣
LMBO!!
Maybe they are lucky to not work for this company, and found a better job after.
Hahaha
ALL THINGS HAPPEN TOGETHER FOR GOOD
I am 76 years old, and long time ago, I had realized that a big chunk of my success was because I happened to be in the right place at the right time by sheer chance. A lot of people helped me along the way, and I am passing that on. Great video post, and best of LUCK.
I taught myself piano and other instruments, worked really hard doing local shows in my town but never made it, lol. I always thought maybe I just didn’t have a lot of luck since I’m from a little go no where town outside of a bigger town. We don’t have a lot of opportunities unless you move. Thank you for sharing your story of luck!
As someone who is a risk management profession. I agree uncertainty is a thing. But you can manage these uncertainty
@@leetheleo9602 Absolutely. Among equally capable people, luck is definitely a factor.
both hard work and luck yes
Absolutely. I got my new Job because I was bored😂
Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. Building wealth involves developing good habits like regularly putting money away in intervals for solid investments. Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future.., I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life!!
Starting early is simply the best way of getting ahead to build wealth , investing remains a priority . I learnt from my last year's experience , I am able to build a suitable life beause I invested early ahead this time .
The rich Invest in alternative income streams that are independent of the government should be the top priority for everyone right now. especially given the global economic crisis we are currently experiencing. Stocks, gold, silver, and virtual currencies are still attractive investments at the moment...
I thought about investing in the real estate market, I heard that people make millions , but I lack good knowledge and a strategy to outperform the market and generate good yields. I have $460,000 but it's hard to bite the bullet and do it. Money is hard to come by
The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my port-folio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment.
Fantastic! Can you share more details?
my mom stopped schooling at 8 years old, while my dad stopped when he was 15,both due to poverty. Statistically the cycle of poverty would continue, but a University opened up close to our home, and my father worked there as a gardener, there he borrowed books for me and opened up my interest in education and its importance. Now I'm working there as an academic faculty member, and people around would always ask how a barely educated gardener raise up an academician. Looking back, if we were just a few kilometres away from the uni, our lives could drastically altered, among other factors that are too long to explain. Today I try my best to help others who weren't so lucky.
This needs way more likes!!
@@cortexauth4094 You are doing the work, so you can take advantage of the luck when it comes.
More power to you.
wishing you the best Aan Azwan
bless you good guy
Woahh Man.. You should get pinned.
Basically:
Luck counts, but don't count on it.
The main point is that we are oblivious to how much luck affects our success
Well said!
literally could not have put that in any better words
I think skillcapped said something about Luck in League. They said those who try to get lucky are more likely to get lucky than others. (In prettier words).
Meaning do count in luck, when the odds of getting lucky seem reasonable.
That doesn't mean you should play the lottery, because it's very unlikely to get lucky there(hence I don't play it). Also it helps picking places tp get lucky where you don't lose anything If it fails but a Bit of time you had No better use for.
A great example of this is almost every CZcamsr. They started creating stuff, were unsuccessful for a long time (sometimes even over 10 years) and then they got some kind of Point where they got lucky and got popular. I know I could achieve anything I wanted to, the hardest thing is figuring out what that is.
And hard work gives a sense of entitlement
This video should be watched by everyone periodically as a reminder that no success is by hard work alone, you also need luck.
Wisdom and prudence and many other things are probably more important than luck. Fools often squander their good luck even if they are hard working
@@philippenight2421wisdom comes as a factor of inspiration. You cannot derive wisdom from a vacuum, it must be learned in an environment. How skewed that environment is towards the outcome of wisdom, is your factor of luck. True wisdom is recognizing the facets of life that are beyond your control but are part of your influence.
but then get youtube recommendation about ' your perception about luck is wrong'
In his experiment, if you were given a skill score of 99, your chances of being in the top 11 were 0%. I repeat, the top applicants *all* had skill scores of 100. So yes, luck plays a role when everyone, including you, is perfect everywhere else. But that isn't really actually saying anything profound.
@@falcon7960where are the details to his experiment available? That would be interesting to see.
My mother, who was a very religious person, used to say “Pray as if it’s all up to God. Work as if it’s all up to you.”
Thats a very good quote
Waw, that's amazing, in Islam, our prophet said a similar thing for us to follow.
Your mom may rest in peace 🙏
Yep, that's the point of praying, we pray to the god to give us the best things possible, and then we should try our best to make the things come true, after that It's up to the god what will happen next
Wooww🤯
Success has nothing to do with money though. That's a Jewish belief, not a Christian one.
My father liked to say “everything in life is decided by luck, but accepting that fact is bad luck.”
Your father is extremely wise man 👍🏿
Luck=preparation (personal growth)+ attitude (belief/mindset) + opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + action (doing something about it)
-Dan Hardy
Yup. Only need to succeed once and all the failures simply won't count anymore.
Interesting saying I had not heard of. "Luck" means we don't understand the causal connections. Surely we are intended not to accept what is without dignity or value.
@@larrysherk it’s just from the book compound effect by Darren Hardy. They ask Richard Branson what he says luck is. He says everyone born healthy in a a free world is lucky. Luck is all around us, but some see it and act on it and others don’t. Just considering yourself lucky, is even part of it. Anyways then the compound effect takes it a bit further. I read a lot of self improvement type books for work.
My Grandfather was once the head of all the passports in the United States. From what those who knew him before he retired would tell me, including my mother, he was an incredibly hard worker. He had a work ethic where he would always be productive by 6am, the time he used to leave for work. He was incredibly good at his job as well. But when you ask him, he would tell you a different story. He often contributes his success to luck. He is incredibly grateful for his parents and his bosses who put him ahead in life, never mentioning the work that he had to put in to get to where he was. This video reminded me of him, and I felt like I should share the story.
Your videos are one of my favorites series of all!! I learn so much not just about the actual topics in discussion, that are already súper interesting, but about english too. My first language is spanish and I'm trying to learn English to been able to learn more things and through your videos I have been making it a lot. Thank you.
There is a saying in Bangladesh that, "if it is the only hard work that pays off, then the farmers(/labors) would have been millionaires."
bro that's not bangladeshi...these are famous words of greatest indian rapper carryminati "Mehnat to ghada bhi karta hai...isstar bana de stage pe nachwa de?"
@@OhhYasssh carry is more famous for his vulgar word in his roasting videos than rapping to be exact :3
@@SadmimHossain carry tera baap ha
@@OhhYasssh
You do not need to show your level in front of everyone on earth. You could just behave like a normal person. But there's a Bengali saying, "ব্যবহারে বংশের পরিচয়।" (Manners make the man)
Peace
@@OhhYasssh bruh why you getting triggered
So your advice at the end is basically, "Fake it 'til you make it but when you make it don't forget you faked it"
hey that's pretty good..
i like the cut of your jib
Just wow!
It seems that is the game that one has to play in order to appear confident and therefore trustworthy.
But some would argue that we have to keep trying: keep throwing the dice until you randomly get some favourable numbers.
pretty much
Part of me wishes that I would have found this channel sooner... The other part of me loves the fact that I have so much content to binge! Excellent work, sir. I love your content, pace, intellect, and especially your candor. Keep up the great work!!
Honestly sometimes I just can't believe how amazing this channel is. Your videos are incredibly interesting and well done. Thank you!
"Avoid employing unlucky people by throwing away 50% of the job applications without even reading them."
doesn't that already happen? They use certain keywords in their search program that reviews applications and automatically throws out any missing certain ones without the HR person ever seeing it. If your resume didn't have the right words, you are s*** outta luck lol.
@@SurgStriker I can't speak on what you're saying, but I think this person is referring to something else and perhaps making a bit of a joke. By throwing away 50% of job applications without reading them, you get rid of unlucky people because they were unlucky enough to be one of the random applicants that they tossed aside, if that makes any sense. Basically, if you only want to hire lucky people, then doing this method will help to ensure that you do, as lucky people won't be the ones that have their applications thrown out. This process doesn't involve reading a single word of the actual applications, so it's different from what you're talking about. I hope that makes sense.
@@shreknskrubgaming7248 i understood his comment, and i was just pointing out "we joke about it...but it actually happens IRL already". There is a large amount of luck involved in ever getting your resume read by a person because most major companies HR uses bots to screen applications and throws the majority away before a human knows they exist (granted, it's not because they are 'getting rid of unlucky applicants', it's just saving themselves work, but the end result is the same). It's just one of those things-sometimes comedians come up with jokes that are funny-until you realize that's how things actually are. Then it's just depressing
@@shreknskrubgaming7248 what if the one that get unlucky was the HR
@@SurgStriker If you make your resume slightly different each time so it matches general keywords that the job title entails. Why hire a plumber for a computer technician basically
When a science channel is more motivating than most motivation channels.
You dont need a motivation, you just need a click. But i get what you are saying 👍
This video, and the experiment he did, is missing a HUGELY important characteristic of luck that scientists would normally account for.
Consider I'm interviewing for jobs. For one interview, I might hit all the lights red, making me a few minutes late, or not. That's luck. It might turn out that some system the employer users is the same brand I already have experience with, or not. By luck. I might catch the interviewer in a good mood, or not. When they ask a logic/brainteaser question it might be one I've heard before, or not. If I make a joke with someone in the elevator, that might turn out to be the interviewer, or not. They might share my sense of humor, or not. There are a dozen or more different "luck" factors for a single interview. Almost certainly, I'll hit some and miss some.
Of course, I might interview for several different jobs. On the first I get get 6/12 lucky, maybe 7/12 on the second job, and 5/12 on the third.
Over the course of a full day there might be a 100 different luck things. The person I hold the door for might turn out to matter in some way. I might happen to see an ad that turns out to be useful, whatever. With near certainty, I'll land some good and some bad, even over the course of a day. Over the course of a LIFETIME - hundreds of thousands of interactions, nobody is going to get lucky every single time, or unlucky 10,000 times in a row.
His experiment calculated ONE random value for luck. But that's not how luck works in our lives. A better simulation would be to randomly assign 10,000 random values for lucky/unlucky (0 or 1) over the course of 10,000 different things, then sum those up. If you do that for 10,000 things that can happen, 10,000 coin flips, , you find that almost everyone gets a total luck score pretty darn close 5,000.
@@senseisecurityschool9337 You are born in a desert. Your family and friends have never seen people or places outside your local area. Get 1 million dollars.
You would say it is not fair to compare our standards to ones less developed... why?
@@laukcube Wow dude. Many of the richest people in the WORLD were born in the Sahara desert. People like Mohamed al-Fayed (multi-billionaire) and his son Dodi Fayed, princess Diana's boyfriend. Or Haim Saban. You really think being born in the Sahara (aka being Arab) means you can't succeed in life? So racist!
Ps - other people who would match that description, people born in a desert to families who weren't jet setters,, would be this dude named Jesus, and another dude named Moses. Lol. You literally described the person who had had the MOST impact on the world in all of human history.
So much for your"people from desert nations (Arabs and Jews) are savages who can't do anything" idea. Lol
Well said. In addition, I have found that 1) I can stay very motivated with the full realization that my ability to accomplish a goal is dependent on many, many things that are completely out of my control, by having faith that I am fulfilling my life's mission, and 2) their are proven techniques to increase your luck which I have employed successfully. While many people suffer setbacks that are out of their control, life is usually long enough to overcome them, if they have a mind that is open to learning, faith in their path and utilize techniques to increase their luck. We may not all be able to achieve equal outcomes, but we can all achieve equal improvement and growth, if we're lucky!
its been almost 2 years by now since i first came across this video and i always come back to it. what a great message.
When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me "If you study and work hard, nothing guarantees your success. But if you don't, you guarantee your failure."
Nowadays I find myself really lucky to have a dad that taught me that so early in life hehe
Thanks a lot, man. I really appreciate all of your videos, and I'm one of those that had the luck to be watching them since when vsauce posted about the weight of a shadow ahaha
That is the greatest learning of all time. I guess I heard it in a movie, that if you try you might fail, but if you don't you definitely will.
Edit: Now I remember, it was in a movie about asking a girl for a date 😂
That is a wise advice. If I ever have kids I will use that.
I'm lucky to be a part of his CZcams journey before that event. This guy is really awesome.
Are we long lost siblings? XD
Shame we all can't have YOUR dad... CHeck ur flex man.. esp ppl making nothing cuz i also worked hard and got nothing. Go fund some community projects, Bezos.
This video will one day help me teach my son/daughter the importance of gratitude, humbling and generosity. Thank you for that!
Bro just donated 10 euro and got less then 50 likes after 1 month ☠️
@@nuruzzamankhan1610I think his goal was to show gratitude not get likes 😅
@@nuruzzamankhan1610 your comment is ironic given the content of this video
@@nuruzzamankhan1610 unlucky I guess. And the author also has seen this dono, but wanted to point out the importance of luck and didn't like.
"you should do what you can to increase the luck of others". beautiful.
@@JaredSessi do you even know what luck is?
@@rattled4806 When preparedness meets opportunity.
@@erniellerena So if you're born to rich parents in a rich country, it could be said that you were lucky. So, then, does that mean that you were prepared for the opportunity to be born to rich parents or what? Would they stop being rich because you were not prepared to be born to rich parents? Your definition is extremely flawed.
Commi
@@rattled4806 I have family members who are very rich but are not lucky. My 2nd cousins leech off my great aunt. One is a drug addict who beat her. Both his sons are dead. BOCES sons are dead. one got stabbed multiple times and downtown LA about 3 years ago and the other one just died six months ago from a heroin overdose at her house. he died on the porch because his dad was too messed up to even answer the door. Then you got the other one. Morbidly obese and diabetic and they had to cut her leg off because of it. I just found out that she's asking her mom for a house with a pool. What the hell is she going to do with a house with a pool? Do they sell Lucky to you?
This is a very kind video. I feel like finally there is an explanation for why I am not getting success even after putting all the hard work. And this video provides an empirical evidence that there is something called as luck. Thanks a lot for making it.
I also like the argument that it is better for people to live in the delusion that their success is directly proportional to their hard work and so they should keep working hard. And in moments of despair, they should remind themselves that they failed because luck wasn't on their side
A boss of mine once said "You are unique... just like everyone else."
It's a very paradoxical statement but it reminds me of the concept in this video. The world simply does not revolve around any of us.
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life."
I really love that quote. Jean-Luc really is a gem.
@@roko2036 oh no trust me there are a lot of ways to be fucked up: family issues, accidents of all kinds, diseases and lots more
@@99fulgur I guess. I just wasn’t thinking of it in that way
@@roko2036 I found that the trend of rich and poor pretty much exist in "all" the countries.
@@TN-br9yl different countrys have lots of more opportunities than other. Like growing up in Somalia is WAY harder than growing up in America
That "How I met your mother" reference was amazing.
Yes
I laughed so hard! :'D
Great reference, now it needs a bit more scientific exploration :D
I enjoyed the whole video, but that scene made me look up and smile :)
Where is it?
This is the most beautiful documentary I've ever watched. I've thought about this for a long time and philosophised about it thoroughly, and all you've said weighs correctly. Thanks Sir
I'm in a period of my life where... you have no idea how much i needed to see and hear what you just said in this video, Thank you, Thank you so much !
So basically what you're saying is:
This is ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
Shinoda taking over
This! 🔥
Ngl u got me at the end
Hahahahah That's pretty accurate.
Yoo.. Love this song..!
_"The biggest lie we tell ourselves is that we are all born equal. We are not. We are born lucky. How lucky is a matter of luck."_
-Somebody Probably
Not lucky enough to have his name remembered
It goes to you now,👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
_Merchants probably_
-You*
You're Indian, right?
You do amazing work with your channel and I think this is the best one yet. Thank you much for your work!
Dude I wish I could give this video multiple likes and I’m purely a consumer of content…but this video I will share, like, and hope you get more subs from this! One of the most humbling videos on the internet I swear! Keep up the great work. Love your videos and the work you put into them. Wish you all the success in the world. Hope people continue to expand their perspectives and minds from your content as I have ❤
I agree, soooo beautiful!
Man bringing up this topic alone is a feat, but explaining it to this level of straightforwardness, detail, & clarity is just wow
I agree. It is great that he explained it with emphasis and clarity. Which part do you most agree on?
@@thenewcedric all of it was great, what i liked is that the video matched my own personal view or the Tao te Ching's view that each of us has their life plan & what we do conributes to it but doesnt control it, similar to the saying that a river has its own course & what we do can affect it to some extent but cant change the course of the river, so what this guy calls 'luck' in this video i interpreted it as 'life plan'
@@samermazahreh
It's rather the other way around.
We control it to a very meaningful degree, but luck contributes to the outcome. The more exceptional the outcome the larger the contribution, in general at least.
This video downplays how important hard work and competence are. If you're smart and hard working there's is an exponentially higher chance that you will succeed in something (maybe not the exact thing that you are striving for but something) then if you're not hard working and incompetent.
@@blaynestaleypro “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
― George Monbiot
Your shout out to VSauce and how you met your wife really hit me in the feels.
same
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Amazing storytelling with great visuals and insightful high-level studies. Also, phenomenal camera work at 0:59-1:04, perfectly complimented the script. Sweet stuff!
I like the last part of the video in which you summarise in explanation. it really helped me recall an strengthen the concepts of the video. I recommend adding a time line feature to your video, it helps us, scoopy learners understand in Summery and then tell it to our friends and families jn our own words.❤❤
"Current isn't measured in Volts?"
"That's hot"
hahaha truee
lol
Ampers... And wow, that's a crazy way to flirt
Well, that's known for a very long time - that smartness is a helluva sexy thing ;)
@@arunotei That's why couples play with their minds in bed, right? :D
"Downplaying the importance of chance events may actually improve the probability of success because if you percieve an outcome to be uncertain you're less likely to invest effort in it which further decreases your chances of success." damn that was a hard sentence
Hopefully more people embrace that.
Or said another way: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
@@abraxas365 well said
v"Don´t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value." - Albert Einstein
@@globaldigitaldirectsubsidi4493 ctrl v ctrl v ctrl v
I want to say this video perfectly aligns a mental conversation I have been having with myself for the past 3 years, all the way up to and including the conclusion--that you must fool yourself into believing that you're in absolute complete control of what happens to you in order to (have a chance at) achieving success.
It's interesting because I didn't approach it from a scientific lens as you have, but after being exposed to hard determinism. Of course, hard determinism takes it a few steps further in removing freewill altogether.
A nice corollary that falls out of these ideas is a real compassion for everyone less fortunate than you up to and including the worst criminals.
the part from 10:00 is the most moving piece of youtube I've ever seen. I can also relate to the power of acknowledging luck as a big contributor to my successes - I find it liberating to be able to recognize the extent it contributed to where I am today
Derek admitting that his success is through luck immediately after telling the viewer that someone saying this makes them more likeable...
My like has increased.
v"Don´t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value." - Albert Einstein
the most underappreciated call-to-action
and I like him more for it! 😂
And even though he telled the trick before it still worked.
I remember this story:
There was once someone in charge of selecting recruits for fighter pilot education. He had every application paper in front of him in a pile. They needed to be narrowed down. So he took the top half of the papers and threw in the waste bin. He said: "These applicants were unlucky. We don't want unlucky people as fighter pilots."
I love this story. Really made me laugh.
Hahaha, that's a great story. Do you remember his name by any chance?
True story or joke?
Feels like I've read this somewhere before....
@@DanNguyen-oc3xr it's from the office (uk version)
When I decided to watch your video I had no Idea I'd end up in tears. This was really beautiful thank you.
I am fortunate to watch this video right when I needed it the most. Thank you Veritasium for all of your hard work, skills, and luck.
"so how did you meet our mother"
"she noticed that the current wasn't measured in volts"
"watt?"
"watt?"
She's a keeper
And I was amped
watt u say?
@@md.ihtishamsharif4041 amper
I was ohms
random guy: *born in december*
hockey: we don't do that here
😆😆😆
LOL
I did immediately pause the video and look up Wayne Gretzky by the way.
26th of January.
I was born on december 31st.. So i am extremely unlucky and therefore claim all my succes to my hard work and skills!
I did gymnastics when I was young and we had two people in our group. Me (born in november) and the other girl (born January 1th - yes really). We were 8-12 years old, and I almost always lost because she would be just a little bigger and stronger than me, her being basically a year older. She was more sloppy, but her strength generally made up for it. It made this bias super obvious.
Wow I stumbled upon this at such an opportune time in my life. My friends and I are all struggling with the reality of living in one of the harshest, most expensive places in the US to live. We’re all struggling to get by even with help from our parents.
We’ve all hit a brick wall at some point or another, burning ourselves out and feeling bad about ourselves. Thankfully we’re moving through it at our own paces and a couple of us may have found a new opportunity for growth.
Thanks for the video. It really stood out for us.
I recognize that username, fellow Runescaper! Sorry things have been hard for you. Just a thought: Maybe you can consider moving to a low CoL area and look for a remote job?
WOW!!! Currently my best Veritasium Video. So much knowledge and personal introspection and indirectly, self motivation. Thanks Dude! Love your Page and the knowledge you share!!!! Much love guy. Thanks again dude.
"You should do what you can to increase the luck of others" is a phrase that always get me.
Sure...and "workers of the world unite!" Don't buy into this Leftist drivel. What he's doing here is trying to take the credit from successful people and give it to those who didn't work nor contribute to it. This is the basis of socialism/Marxism. It's nonsense. There is nothing scientific here. This is a POLITICAL video.
Same here
But we have to buy his Snatoms kits before he will increase the luck of others. Capitalism at its finest?
@@TheJghan LOL, exactly. If you buy a lot of SnatomsX and you make this man a billionnaire, maybe this man will reach his self Transcendence and become the most selfless man on earth. He would give back to the society.
It is not me who tell that, it's the Maslow's hierarchy of needs and evolution rules. 🤣🤣🤣
Agreed. Thanks for thinking like this!
I really like this channel, never boring, sometimes difficult but always worth watching to the end. Good job!
bravoo!! this is exactly what is stated in the book Outliers. it´s so important to have this perception. you´ve managed to make a captivating video about the topic that explains the gist of the idea in a very friendly manner.
So I need to be an optimist while secretly being a pessimist but also a closet realist.
I think I need press a screwdriver through my head at this point if to achieve that "happy-go-lucky" attitude.
you summed it up perfectly
Pretty much sums it up
well i cant think of a better way to sum it up
and I thought being like this is bad 😐
"Yep that's how i met your mother"
hahaha wow didn't know one Instagram comment could lead to a lifetime of events.
hahahaha, I know right. It really moved me!
"Don´t try to be a man of success, try to be a man of value." - Albert Einstein
You know he slid in them dm's 😏😏
That's why you should never mess with the timeline
How about one CZcams comment uwu
Very thoughtful and well articulated. Phenomenal video man. Keep up the good work.
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The approach here is true and should be put into action. feeIs good to be here.
Surprisingly enough when people that live single are asked what percentage of mess they are responsible for the answers are always 140%.
Edit: Never had a comment that blew up like this. Thank you for liking my dumb joke.
Makes sense to me
Luck factor matters less than HARD WORK
Akhil Ajith it’s more so, one person may say 60% is mine whilst the other says 80% is mine. Combined that’s 140%.
@@akhilajith5374 Since they are not allowed to discuss the amount of work they do they say more than they are supposed to. I say I do 70% of the work and my partner says she does 70% of the work. Hence 70 plus 70 becomes 140.
@@harshvardhanwagare5663 not when u make u own luck haha
My dad used to say that "success is where opportunity meets preparedness." You're not prepared you can't snag that opportunity and it'll just pass you by. On the other hand, you can prepare all you want, but if the opportunity doesn't present itself then you should still be proud of what you have accomplished, because although the hard work you put into being prepared didn't pay off in the way you imagined it would it still counts for something, you still went somewhere. And who knows, there may be a different opportunity you can snag that you didn't see coming. Be proud of where you are, strive to be better than you are now, find comfort in the present, and look toward the future and the infinite possibilities it holds.
Your words are reassuring thank you
Yes
Absolutely true
Guess it all depends on what you consider success.
Hear! Hear!
I think I'm going to credit you when I become successful 😂 .
I’m incredibly grateful that this incredibly important video exists. I’ll watch it every time it appears in my feed, and I hope by leaving a comment that more people will be lucky enough to see it. Thanks for making such fantastic content, Derek 😊
watch it again broski
Great video! I like the part you show your example when building up the youtube channel! Your videos are always inspiring, informative and down to earth 👍👍
Ah a CPG grey shirt. A true man of culture :)
@Jen farmer uh, what
More like CGP Grey
@Jen farmer Please prove this.
What is cgp?
CGP and Vertasium are good friends
"Hey that's a cool shirt"
- CGP Grey, probably
also: me XD
And some nice stick figures... ;)
Hey cool stickfigures
CPG grey probably.
The t-shirt is CGP Great
The animations remind me o GCP Grey. I wonder if that is Veritasium's way of showing gratitude to GCP Grey...
Love this so much! It's so informative, inspiring and uplifting.
Wow. What a great video! Very well explained. Thank you, and thanks to everyone and everything that enabled discovering this talent. Thank you!
Celebrity motivational videos be like:
I was sitting on the porch one day, depressed, had nothing to do, I was weak. I was all alone. My dad walked over to me and sat beside me. My dad told me something that would forever change my life and set me u
For success, He told me “son, my multi-billion dollar company is yours now”
Wow, that's very inspirational... Thank you, I'm much more motivated now
Very emotional indeed
2 years later you went bankrupt or he did indead coach you?
😂🤣
Really motivated 😭😭😭😭 wish more people were like his dad👍👍👍👍
"increase the luck of others" that is the best phrase I have ever heard
It's hard to increase the luck of others that arent willing to work to better their lives. Yo ur effort will be wasted
@@scottwilliams3665 they are tired of their bad luck and circumstance , no man is lazy by birth. help people as much as possible don't expect any return
@@AravindHan008 exactly.
Luck is zero-sum. We cannot increase everyone's luck. But we can increase opportunities. And we can help people deal better with good and bad luck.
@@ZorbaTheDutch No. It's not. Going from where most of the world is in poverty to where we are now, to the future where no one would die of poverty or of diseases. You are lucky today by all means. Don't be an entitled ....
This man is preaching love man! Its almost making me cry😢
Found this 3 years later and it is such an enlightenment! Thank you for the amazing video🙏
in Pakistan, there is a saying, "If Success comes from hard work, then show me a rich donkey"
edit: some are very confused so im editing this for clarification purposes. this expression implies Hard work is not the only element which helps u be successful, luck counts aswell. So if u keep the context in mind of the video, u willl see that i didnt randomly write an expression. but to help understand the video better.
and if u dont like the expression, thats fine.
That's why no one takes pakistan seriously
@@commanderleo you can't compare something that doesn't have the same capabilities as humans, to having the same outcomes as humans, because humans are different. That's why the saying is dumb, a donkey would never get rich even from hard work, ever, and is why the other guy said no one takes Pakistan seriously, because of silly sayings
Don't know if they work hard, but a couple of em exposed their donkeyness here in the comments. 😆
CommanderLeo real sayings have truth to them
Why make roast of your self bro !
Seriously Pakistan believe in that ?
One of my favorite quotes - "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity."
Except many unprepared people become wildly successful without working hard at all. So
@@frost1183 could be true in some special cases but preparation/hardwork is still required to maintain that success
Said by Tom Platz
Or where you are born in a rich household in a rich country
I agree with the statement, however, it comes with a caveat. The finesse of the prep is influenced by environment. Environment could also decide whether or not you get the opportunity that matches your prep.
You are an amazing CZcamsr. Thanks for educating us!
Your videos are simply ... thoughtful, ... brilliant.
Wow, finally, a successful influencer that doesn't put himself on the pedestal and teaches all the factors that we love to ignore. Bravo.
Maybe surprisingly, Pewdipie have the same conception about the role luck plays in his own success. He openly talks about it. I always thought it was great of him.
There's something about being in film/theater (Veritasium went to film school briefly) that seems to make people self-reflect more. They're usually more self-aware and humble.
@DATING HARLEY QUINN
Your story sounds interesting..
“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
― George Monbiot
Sorry but I think that is a stupid quote because the women in Africa aren’t working hard to get wealthy, they’re working hard to live.
So while its true that wealth isn’t the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise the second part doesn’t prove it’s not.
@@Vennillion It's not stupid quote, you just didn't get it.
@@Vennillion He didn't say they worked hard to get rich, he said they worked hard so they should be rich. Reading comprehension
True that. If hardwork Really was the only ingredient to success even a donkey would have been the king of Animals
@@Vennillion It's OK man, you were too quick to comment on this, that you forgot to understand when he really meant. Read twice before replying.
This made my day. Love your work!
Your last bit of advice is spot on. Never rely on luck, but it's ok to take chances every now and then. And when you are struck with bad luck, well most of the time it's because you did something that led to a risky situation you should have never been in. And when you succeed, you should understand what was caused directly by your hard work and what was good fortune.
For years my own mantra has been: "feel superior, know that you are not".
I think that falls quite in line with the paradoxical advice. My inner feeling of superiority makes me confident that I can achieve what I set out to do. My acknowledgement of the lie makes it so I don't treat others as lesser people, but with dignity.
Regarding luck, I once heard someone say:
"You can't increase your luck, but you can increase your opportunities for luck to happen."
This is a great outlook and if you live like that, you will probably be perceived as a lucky person, simply because the number of times you were lucky will in general increase.
good mantra
@Cryonic Family sorry im not following you.
If I shoot 3 shots on a basketball court, I might miss all. But if I take 100 shots I might make at least 1.
@DéJi Vu trying to succeed is never wasted effort even if you fail, especially if you learn from your experiences.
@DéJi Vu yeah but at least you give yourself a chance, if you try you can get some things if you dont try...well you wont get anything.....unless you are EXTREMELY lucky.
Oh hey, a CGP Grey shirt. That's cool.
Indeed. Good on you, Dirk form Veristablium.
Yep, love the Grey shirt!!!
@@JHD42 HA! That was the first thing I though when I started this video.
@@JHD42 The Duke from the Vatican
Ethan Stewart it says cgp grey
Boundless appreciation to you for producing such profound video 👏
This is gold! I mean if i list out all the things that needed to happen at the right time for me to be where i m today it would be a huge list ! One thing to add is that hardwork and determination basically increase your chances of capitalizing on the opportunities presented to you by luck.
This is what a real influencer looks like, he says sensible things and makes us think in another dimension.
You're a good Dad Derek. I'm really enjoying your recent videos.
Love your work!
So Destin, how exactly did luck play into you meeting your kids' mother?
Both of you guys are awesome!
I like that you can be complimentary about Derek, Destin, even after he said Turbulent Flow > Laminar Flow... :D
Well this is just heart-warming.
one of the best gems of Derek, I keep returning to or sending to people. He has quite a few of these super gems.
It literally felt like a slap on my face. I was just talking about who contributed the most in Theatre. Such a great video, thank you!
One said a wise man:
"I have seen highly skilled and intelligent men serving the highly lucky ones."
Ooh. this
Who said this
-by Umar bin Khattab
(not sure, please someone help us know)
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I guess this is why persistence is so important. The more times you try, the more chances you have at getting high enough luck.
This is a very good comment. Some people might be feeling down after this, feeling as if they may not have had the same chances as others (me included) , but the fact is we can create our own luck. No matter how unfair life has been, as long as you keep working hard and keep knocking on those doors, there will come a time where one of those doors will open. It may take days, weeks, months or years, but you would rather work hard and try to get an opportunity than to sit at home and be upset about the unfairness of life.
Great comment.
I kind of disagree. Sometimes, no matter how many times you try, or how hard you work, you will fail. This is a fact of life and the sooner people learn that, the sooner they will stop believing in those pop psychology nonesense.
In the past years,
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered. After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived. Surprisingly, business failure rates are fairly consistent and are not directly connected with covid 19 but rather is a fairly normal failure rates...
So unless you get a little help from pure luck, whanever you try your hardess, you have a fair chance to lose your business, your health and your mind trying...
Does that mean you should stop trying? No, but if you keep doing the same thing over and over, 'persistance' being your only strategy, it is not gonna work. You may need to change your approach, or consider 'failing for good', and move to something else... Adaptability is more useful than stubborness. And sometimes, accepting your failure is a big part of your future success.
@@jessikapiche6097 You need a large amount of luck and social connections, I agree. When I said that you should stay working hard and persist, you explained pretty much what I meant . Persistance doesn't necessarily mean being stubborn and executing the same method repeatedly, but rather the persistence in the ability to adapt and overcome. To look at your mistakes from an analytical viewpoint so that you could do the same task with higher efficiency. You adapt, persist, analyse mistakes and overcome.
Persistence isn't constantly walking into a wall until you get through, it's continuing to try to find a way around, over, or sometimes threw it, instead of giving up. So what you call adaptability I consider to be part of persistence.
Dostoyevsky's "poor folks" is a great novel that touches on this topic in an unusual way.
Great video!
2 years late here, but I've recently started watching these videos and was wondering why I found the voice so "famliar", and in this video I see you're from Sydney, ie, an Australian.
Very much do enjoy the way you present your topics. This one in particular is something I frequently discuss with my wife ( coincidentally, also a "luck" meeting after being casually deported from South Africa ).
Thank you for putting the effort in to the videos.
It’s like they say: luck has to find you working
...in that girl’s DMs.
“Yes youre right, current isnt measured in volts, it’s measured in amp you free this saturday? Watt’s ur name. Volt you go to the movies with me?” -Derek, probly
Ohm just gonna give this comment a thumbs up.
Gauss you meant a right hand grip rule.
Alex, 😂 you are amazing !!
*Then he went to the jewellery shop and when he saw the **_rate of joules_** , he was like- **_"Watt !?"_*
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"It seems a cruel trick of our psychology that successful people without any malice will credit their success largely to their own hard work and ingenuity, and therefore contribute less to maintaining the very circumstances that made that success possible in the first place." - wow this was damn well said!
it makes no sense
yes I agree
@@Sam-fp8zm It basically is saying that people who believe that the only reason they are successful is because of themselves that they aren't as inclined to contribute back into the society and systems which helped them achieve it in the first place.
@@ashleyferdinand9996 yeh thanks I get it now. after reading your comment.
@@Sam-fp8zm glad i could help 😃
I’ve seen a lot of successful and unsuccessful people over my lifetime. It is extremely, extremely evident in my experience that luck plays a far greater role than hard work. The most successful people tended to have the richest and most educated parents. It was literally as simple as that. The least successful people had mental or physical illnesses from a young age, traumatic childhoods, and even when they worked their ass off it achieved next to nothing compared to the rich people.
I loved this vid! Thank you for putting things in perspective!
“It is possible to commit no mistakes, and still lose” - Picard
I actually think about that quote alot, really puts things into perspective
He was speaking to Lt. Commander Data, then walked out.
It's possible to work hard all your life and never have "success". Then what is success and what is winning.
Pete success must be equal to happiness and wisdom
@@axelrios276 depends on your personal view, but yes, whatever brings you happiness. Money, fame, easy life, sexual partners.
Imagine being the lucky engineer who gets to build the largest "unsinkable" ship on earth and be onboard during its maiden voyage.
They should make a movie about that
I dont know why but this comment reminds me of the titanic
@@kemosgaming8777 bruh, he really is talking about Titanic.
@@rajaryanvishwakarma8915 Really! You don't say
@@rajaryanvishwakarma8915 Ohh
“If you do achieve success that luck played a significant role and given your good fortune, you should do what you can to increase the luck of others”
Very very insightful and based upon reality, exactly what I needed at this time of my life. Thank you, you got a new subscriber ❤🎉
"Yep, that is how I met your mother."
I'm not crying, you're crying.
Crying? I'm laughing.
Hahhaha
I'm a dude watching a sciency video. Did not expect that emotion at all!
If i found a woman who was into science i would probably fall head over heels for her too. Lol It would be cool to find a woman of any kind, but that requires me to leave my house and actually put in effort and thats way too much to ask.
Wait what happened to physics girl? 😮
Moral of the story: if you got lucky, don't let it go to waste!
I do watch your videos Alux. I am a Aluxer
@sneaky stepdad Just a suggestion: Perhaps it would be a good idea to check in on your mental urge to childishly call people names and your lack of ability to learn new things. I'm going to take a guess and say it's a lame attempt at making yourself feel better... I'm sorry you have such a low opinion about yourself that you have to come on here and do that. Maybe if you educated yourself, you'd live a much more fulfilling life and wouldn't feel the need to troll the comments. Hope you get to feeling better. I know life is hard for many right now, especially with the current lack of good leadership. Take care.
I subscribed you again
If you let it go to waste, you weren't lucky enough to succeed in the first place. The strongest people are rarely the ones who get recognition for it, it would be a huge coincidence for someone to be both the strongest at something and effectively personable enough to share it en masse
Angela Reuss the fact that they missed that part says a lot.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful video. People easily blame others for their lack of success, they must watch this. ❤
Great video. Hard work and skills are needed of course, to prepare ourselves when luck blows our way!
In our local Chinese community there's a saying, hokki te it punsu te ji, which means luck is number one and intelligence or education is number two. And often translated to no matter how smart or hard working you are, without luck (hokki) you won't be successful. So this video is very well reminded me of that mindset. It's good to do hard work but don't take all the credit as luck gives you the way.
This is also why it's impressive Arnold Schwarzenegger says there's no such thing as a self-made man, and acknowledges all those who helped him.
Elon Musk has the same attitude. Which is why his teams are so successful and motivated. However Arnold is a joke now that he joined the the shake and bake "I'm a professional climatologist" bandwagon. He's just a joke and a loser now. He should have just stuck to Bodybuilding.
@@seth7745 whatever you're doing right now, just stick to that. Never try to change and learn new things. There's a chance you'll make mistakes along the way and people will judge you. Trust me. I see it all the time.
@@aarongall9191 Nice Red Herring fallacy. I'm not criticizing anyone for making a mistake here. I am a lifelong learner like anyone else, but pretending like you are an expert on climate change when you are not is not "learning new things". We are not talking about a mistake, we are talking about overreaching outside of ones area of expertise. I'm an engineer. We have a code of ethics that prohibit this, but politicians do not apparently.
There's really not anything under our control. Where we're born is predetermined, our parents are predetermined, our genetic makeup is predetermined, our sexuality is predetermined, our thoughts are predetermined, the way we react to situations are caused by predetermined factors, we can never be truly free. Everything we do is because of factors outside of our control. Kind of like dying because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Things completely out of our control determines whether we live or die. And I can't even imagine a functional world where this wasn't the case.
@@seth7745 Just a quick guess, those quotation marks you used….not really a quote, right?