Consider that there is: >luck in being born with a high IQ

>>8914204
>>>/r9k/

>>8914204
>>>/his/

This is a topic which has come up, fairly consistently, throughout human history.

The general consensus, is that conditions outside of your control weave the major threads of your life, but random chance and your actions decide the details.

In my experience, it is very difficult to consciously change the course of your life, but with insanely hard work and willpower, one can get control of about 50% of their path.

Your environment shapes who you are. If you want to make drastic changes to yourself, make drastic changes to your environment.

>>8914228
>but with insanely hard work and willpower, one can get control of about 50% of their path.

But for that you still need

1) excellent mental health to not burn out and want to kill yourself
2) supporting environment of friends or family

>>8914244
Please ...this is just a regurgitated platitude. Most people got to where they are because they were at the right place at the right time - something totally out of their control.

>>8914205
I'll give you some advice op.

Not everyone can be a winner. ;^)

Git gud

>>8914395
>Git gud

But don't you need the right amount of neuron wiring, and sufficient endorphins and serotonin in your brain to keep you motivated to git gud?

>>8914417
One way to git gud is to quit stressing about the minutiae of how to git gud and just git gud

>>8914417
Fucking millenials with their disgusting defeatist attitude. Stop complaining and start learning, you'll get further than half of the IQ masturbators at mensa. Unless you're born a retard, you can git gud with just hard work. Sure, you won't be pushing the limits of human knowledge, but neither will 99% of those in mensa. Git gud, shitlord

>>8914204
>>luck in being born with good genes to attract the opposite sex without trying
>>luck in not being bullied and developing poor social interaction skills
>>luck in choosing friends you can trust
>>luck in having good mental health and not killing yourself after persistent failures

Back to /r9k/

>>8914204
Not sure why everyone is being so harsh to you but anyway.

You don't even have to go that far into thinking. All you need to know is that everything you have everdone and everthought is because of the trajectory of the big bang.

free will is ofcourse real but we do not have it to do so you would need to be born in a world with no stimuli and if you had that you wouldn't be doing alot of thinking anyway

so yes you have absoloutley no control
but no it's not luck it has all been calculated

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>>8914204
Character stats maybe random - but you still decide if you wanna go into the dragon's lair at level 2.

Granted, I suppose, whether or not you were raised in an environment to be able to make that decision properly, is also a matter of luck.