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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by adrianN on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:29AM (#25550324)
A large part of life is just luck. Think of all the chance events that had a big impact on your life. For me for example, almost all my success hinges on me randomly seeing a certain poster in a hallway in 2008.
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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by KozmoNau7 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:33AM (#25550587)
Pretty much my entire social circle hinges on one of my sister's friends wanting to go see Iron Maiden in 2014, she asked me to go along with her, because she didn't want to go by herself.

I happened to reconnect with a childhood friend in that crowd of 15,000+ and that got the ball rolling.

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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by getlawgdon on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:18AM (#25550815)
...and every event and choice that led to that...
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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by imtringued on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:44AM (#25550383)
Extreme example: You are the ultimate decision making machine that never makes any mistakes. Did you choose to be that machine?
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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by stavros on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:16AM (#25550522)
Yes. That was a mistake.
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Re:What If You Could Do It All Over? by F_J_H on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:56PM (#25553309)
Some people are quite good at increasing their "luck surface area".
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