>>5791823You can't beat luck with anything. But, if you work hard, and produces things with great technique, of objective quality, then you have chances to counter-balance this lack of luck.
What's important to understand is that you *can* achieve things by working hard. And honestly, I wouldn't trade hard work for lucky occurrences any day of the week: those people who lack skills build themselves on very thin ground. While if you have worked, you'll always have some expertise, knowledge.
Furthermore, you'd then be around people who are educated enough to appreciate good technique & hard work, instead of uneducated/manipulated people.
>>5791969Not him, but I'd offer a mid-way view: recognition has pros AND cons. It can hardly be fully dismissed nor fully embraced.
The single fact that, whether rightfully or not, many people do consider hierarchy & recognition as important, it has a tendency to structure society, for better of for worse.
Yet, recognition/hierarchy is 1. unstable 2. not always established by the smartest people. Selling poop in a can to the price of gold is a fine joke, but over an extended period of time, people are likely to wake up and realize how dumb they've went.
That is to say, if one stick too much to currently established hierarchy, one is basically condemning himself in the long-run.
As the saying go:
> But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.Or for people not as confortable with "religious" sayings:
> Speaking of which, I wouldn’t say evolution is done by any stretch. 
