There is an opportunity cost in playing though. There might be a 10% chance of $1 million but what if it required giving up $100,000 in opportunity costs?
So true. I wouldn’t argue against your point, especially when you’re talking about straight dollars.
I was trying to be more general though. Forget money, think effort.
For almost $0 dollars there is a ton of opportunity out there. Let’s just take something we know, tech.
For effectively $0 you can learn everything there is to know about coding.
You could go to the library, get one book about html, and try being a web developer in two weeks. That’s probably not going to go well, but not because you’re unlucky.
Or, you could spend every waking moment consuming fundamentals of programming, read everything, forums, blog post, write tons of sample apps, contribute to open source and become a bad ass programmer. Chance of success is very high.
I was trying to be more general though. Forget money, think effort.
For almost $0 dollars there is a ton of opportunity out there. Let’s just take something we know, tech.
For effectively $0 you can learn everything there is to know about coding.
You could go to the library, get one book about html, and try being a web developer in two weeks. That’s probably not going to go well, but not because you’re unlucky.
Or, you could spend every waking moment consuming fundamentals of programming, read everything, forums, blog post, write tons of sample apps, contribute to open source and become a bad ass programmer. Chance of success is very high.
That is not about luck.