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Comment on 'Captain America' star Anthony Mackie: 'We're lying to our kids' when we say success comes just from hard work—luck is key, too

movies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“Mackie estimates he ‘put in 10,750 hours of training’ before landing that life-changing job. He was proactive, too: He wrote letters to executives at Disney’s Marvel Studios over a decade ago in the hopes of landing a role in one of the studio’s popular superhero films…”

That sure sounds like hard work to me. What do you think luck is, my guy? It’s putting yourself out there, building connections, and making things happen. That’s how it works. If you sit on your couch all day a studio exec isn’t going to ring you up for a staring part in a marvel movie.

In fact, I might go so far to say his flavor of “luck” exists to prop a person up as a standout above others—destined to be so.

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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is the dumbest take you could possibly get from this.

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- Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  To be fair, I think all the extra work he did do helped the luck come to him. He was constantly working and looking to get those roles, so when they did come around, he was ready to take the opportunity. Luck is still the dominant factor, but working to be ready to take advantage of the chance was important too.
  
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  - NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That’s still luck, not hard work.
    
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    Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    No, it’s definitely both. Luck is going to be the larger factor on that level of success, but there’s still a large portion of hard work that went into it.
    
    We want to dismiss the successful as just being born under the right star, but a large portion of it is still hard work. They get disproportionately rewarded for that hard work, and often they have to do less and less hard work as time goes on… but there was hard work involved, whether we want to admit it or not.
    
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BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I suggest reading Fooled by Randomness.

But I respect you for being confidently wrong.

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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Sounds like you need to understand statistics. If another person followed his footsteps and put in 10,750 hours, would they land in the same spot as him? Is that path repeatable by anyone? No? That’s luck.

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