#021 - luck in infinities

Pause for a moment to reflect on that. There were over six billion people in the world, and one of the most published experts in the field worked within walking distance of my home. Never assume you understand the odds of things.

The success stories of the rich are misleading because they trumpet the notion that the random events of the external world can be subsumed under the driving will of the dynamic goal-setter. But is this true? Arthur Schopenhauer describes, I think, a more accurate dynamic, in his Counsels and Maxims: Events and our chief aims can be in most cases c