I keep hearing from folks that we make our own luck. I feel luck has some part to play with our life.
I still remember going to a cyber cafe and searching for How to become a hacker and getting Eric S Raymonds book in yahoo search(there was no google then). Time and again I think of the incident, what would I or my career has turned out if I had not gotten to know about Open Source movement.
My entire career, connection, and conviction got wings because of it. I don’t have a degree from the Ivy leagues of the world. All I had was these community folks from the Linux user group and later on Drupal, Ubuntu, OpenStack, Minio. They helped me grow, become better with the journey of life. I am in touch with most of these folks, some laugh and feel good seeing me how I have shaped in short gotten more mature.
Why do people downplay luck? Has luck not helped you one or another way in finding someone or achieving something?
Luck is like the ladder; you have to climb all by yourself to become successful. Luck plus hard work is magic.