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Why Bad Luck is Good

5-Minute Videos | PragerU

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Self-improvement, History, Non-profit, Business, Education

4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Can bad luck be a good thing? Comedian Adam Carolla, best-selling author and the world's most popular podcaster, well understands this riddle. He's lived it. Using examples from his own life, he explains that learning to deal with adversity is a key to success. Thus, everybody needs some bad luck: it's how you prepare yourself for the curve balls life throws you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's how I look at life. You're unlucky. I'm unlucky. We're all unlucky. But don't worry,

0:23.2

that's a good thing. Let me make my point. You're not going to win the lottery. You're

0:28.1

not going to win in Vegas. You may get crabs. You bring that on yourself. Actually, they

0:34.3

don't want me to work, but I'll keep it straight. Now, people say to me all the time, Adam,

0:39.0

what do you mean? You're not lucky. Look at your house. Look at your cars. Look at your

0:43.9

life. Look at your wife. Look at everything that you have. That's not luck. That's me.

0:51.3

I earned that. And if I thought I was lucky, I'd probably still be sitting in my one bedroom

0:57.0

apartment in North Hollywood on my futon, scratching lottery tickets. See, that's just

1:02.8

it. I know I'm unlucky. I bet on the last five super balls and loss. As a matter of

1:11.2

fact, I lost four in a row and said, I'm not betting this last year because I lose every

1:17.5

year. And Jimmy Kimmel called me and said, who do you like in the super ball? And I said,

1:23.1

I'm not betting, Jimmy. And he said, you have to bet. So I know how to bet because I'm

1:28.1

going to bet against you because you're that unlucky. And I lost. Thus he won. It's always

1:35.7

nice when a rich guy gets richer. People say, oh, well, if you hand met Jimmy Kimmel, you

1:41.0

wouldn't have gotten to radio. So that was lucky. I'll grant you this. We're all lucky

1:46.5

not to be born stillborn or to have been clipped by a cattle truck when we were rolling

1:53.1

polar blading or not stepped in a bear trap when we were five years old and devoured by

1:59.5

hyenas. That's how my cousin went. For the point is, yes, we're all lucky to be standing

2:07.1

on this planet without a horrible disease. And I understand there are certain people that

2:12.0

are super unlucky and have things like tumors and bronchitis and that sort of thing. We dodged

2:18.4

that bullet. So your dad could own a Ferrari dealership that would put you at the top or

2:27.4

you could be born without your limbs. That would put you on the bottom. But then there's

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