Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this video, we're going to take a look at an interesting question.

How important is luck in becoming successful. Luck and success. These two things a lot of times we believe go hand in hand. If you read stories of people who are

extraordinarily successful, like rich people, politicians,

visionaries throughout history, inventors, stuff like that.

One of the things you tend to see, if you read a lot of biographies,

one of the things you see is that some of these people had some

extraordinary circumstances happen in life.

They were born in a very particular time,

in a particular country, in a particular circumstance

that was just very, very unique.

And we tend to think to ourselves like well I don't have those same

circumstances I'm not as lucky as some of these other people are so I can't be

as successful as some of these people are.

And I used to fall into this trap myself too.

In fact, when I was in college, I wanted to become an aerospace engineer.

That's when I just started college, that was my first major. I wanted to become an aerospace engineer.

That's when I just started college.

That was my first major.

And so I was studying really hard.

I was really serious about it.

And I was a good student.

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