My life’s luck is 90%.” It is a common logic that if you add your natural talent by luck. If

“My life’s luck is 90%.” It is a common logic that if you add your natural talent by luck. If you add your life’s attitude by luck, it becomes 90%.

But in life, talent is not everything. It’s like there is no talent left unattended. There was a time when Shuka only played the “wow” game for more than 10 years. Shuka’s gene remains the same, but sometimes he played for 10 years. Sometimes he saved his talent through hard work. After all, my position is that free will is quite involved.

Luck is not everything. I read “Ross.” It’s a story of a man who has been lucky his whole life. You become a millionaire by luck. You fall to the bottom the moment you run out of luck until you reach middle age. Luck can’t be good forever. Luck that is not based on skills eventually runs out.

With talent and luck, you can succeed temporarily. However, in order to maintain success, you need effort and skill. Talents without effort will lose their luster, and the end of luck that skills do not support is miserable.

The world is an unfair place. There are people who cannot be born. In the end, very few succeed. It is an unchangeable reality. So, from the perspective of competition with others, efforts may be meaningless. Let’s give up the perspective of competition. Even if you may not be able to beat others, if you try, you will grow and develop. You can be a little better than yesterday. At that time, I can feel great reward. It is also meaningful to just polish myself without comparing myself to others.

It’s not for competition that I train myself to write every day. There is no such thing as ‘I have to be better at writing than &name&’. What if I can’t write well? It’s as long as you enjoy the process of writing and trying every day.

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The final irony of this story is that the soybean oil market revived shortly after my bankruptcy in November 1983. My spread 540 contract would have been worth $3.2 million if I could have lived in the market a little longer, no, until May 1984. But now that I think about it, it wouldn’t have made any difference. I would have lost my entire fortune sooner or later, so if it had been delayed a little more, the amount of money I would have lost would have increased. If I had gone in a different direction with $3.2 million instead of $1.6 million, I would have lost $6 million if I had gone in a different trade along the way. It would have resulted in delaying the inevitable loss and only increasing the scale of the loss. Perhaps it was possible to do something clever to repay all of my home loans or keep some of my money in a safe place? Perhaps. But I still believe that this terrible failure would have happened in the end.

• , by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan