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I am being sincere, yes.

> If you imagine she had a lot of money, you’d be wrong.

And that’s not what I meant.




What could your rationale for that possibly be?


> One of the reasons I’ve been financially successful is because I never wanted my life to be like the lives of the people I grew up around.

It motivated you to pursue your little success story. So it was lucky.


So all of the children out there who currently live in poverty, surrounded by drugs and violence are actually lucky to have such a good source of motivation on hand? And all of the children out there who are currently growing up in stable environments are also lucky to have a home conducive to positive development? So who is not lucky? It seems to me, by this standard, everybody is lucky. Or do you need to wait and see who is successful before you decide which circumstances are lucky, and which are unlucky?


It's not the environment based on which luck is determined. Luck is if the environment stimulates the intrinsic or initial programming of the brain in a way that result in a positive outcome.




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