Jack Lepiarz was born in Waco, Texas in 1988. Shortly afterward, he left to live with his father, traveling the American Northeast with the Big Apple Circus. After leaving the circus at the age of six, Jack spent 12 years living full-time in Madison, New Jersey. He is now a college student at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Lepiarz has written over 175 articles for Useless-Knowledge.com and was voted their co-Columnist of the Year for 2006-the youngest writer ever to do so. Though occasionally described as stubborn and egotistical, he tries to keep an open mind and treat others the way that he would like to be treated.

My passion is ...

the circus

I know too much about ...

history

My parents always told me ...

to stop being so stubborn

My childhood ambition ...

to be Peter Pan

My favorite memory ...

the circus

Why I write ...

I like it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Arctic Monkeys

My first job ...

the circus

My best moment ...

July 2006

My inspiration ...

my father

Other The randomness of luck

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Luck is not random. It follows a very distinct and easy-to-follow pattern. You see, most of the year (and I'm speaking purely through my own experience, so other people's experiences may be very different from my own), I'm a fairly lucky guy. The fact that I can have my car spin out of control on a highway off-ramp at 35 miles per hour and wind up without a scratch, or that I can flip over my bicycle handlebars at top speed and come up without so much as a scrape-now that's what I call luck.

The problem is that all of that luck just randomly disappears come February. I'm not sure what i...

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