There is simply nothing random or mystical about "luck". With even a basic understanding of statistics you can see how luck is a very simple matter. Coin tosses are a classical example of this idea. Toss a coin twenty times, you should get exactly ten heads and ten tails. Did you? Of course you didn't. It would be unheard of. You either got more heads or more tails. If enough people tried this experiment then someone would get the exact inverse of what you got. If this was continued on a large enough scale the total of heads and tails would eventually be equal. Despite the fact that not everyone got the same results.

Consider that in a very simplified world there are only two ways any situation go. Favorable to you and unfavorable to you. You face twenty situations and a certain number goes well for you and the rest go badly. Expand this experiment to the size of the coin experiment and you will have the same number of favorable outcomes and unfavorable outcomes.
On either end of this spectrum you'll have people that got an unusual number of outcomes. Either good or bad.

If you consider this on a grand scale, life. You find a statistical anomaly. Some people consistently fall on either end of the scale. The majority of people fall in the middle making a bell curve. The percentage of people in the categories on either end is extremely extremely small. When placed against the population of the entire earth you can see how luck becomes a serious phenomena.

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