We have a desire to define that which is often undefinable.

When it comes to life and its highly coveted outcomes, assessing the things that we want,

we use probability to solidify things that are entirely fluid.

For example, you often hear about the odds of becoming a professional football player,

the odds of becoming a CEO of going to Harvard, making six or seven figures,

numbers that often paint a picture of why you can't.

When you hear only one in however many millions of people accomplish something,

the intent is to show you that you're more likely to fall into the millions bucket than the one bucket.

To show just how rare or difficult or out of the ordinary achieving that thing would be.

Almost like they're being compared to a lottery, a random number generator, luck, a pursuit

in which you have zero control.

Think of a huge glass jar, right?

One red marble, three million green marbles, and it's like you close your eyes and you

better pull out that red one

otherwise you won't become the Oscar winning actor that you dream of being and the problem with

looking at life that way is that it overshadows the most important element of success

understanding just how much control you have the one in however many hundreds or thousands or

millions wasn't born that red marble in a jar full of three million green ones. No, he or she just

did things differently, live differently. They didn't relinquish control. They took control. And that's

the difference. That's what matters.

The lottery is sitting back and hoping your numbers pull. In real life, you create your

own probability every day, every minute that goes towards working towards a goal. That means

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