Originally Written: 8/11/16 Introduction: Whether you’re walking down the street and come across a penny on the ground, counting on your favorite team to succeed in seemingly impossible odds, or hoping that you get that new job that you’re unsure that you’re going to get. Most of us seem to have some sort of intuition about luck. Some of us believe that luck is the determining factor for nearly all decisions and outcomes in our lives; while others use it describe both fortunate and unfortunate events that occur in our daily lives. And still, others believe that there is no role for luck in the world. Whatever the outlook, all of us can agree to have an idea of what it is. However, it seems that not many can seem to answer the question of “what is luck?” There’s no doubt that many others have tried to answer this question before. Most, if not all religions carry a more deterministic sense of luck due to their tendency to attribute uncommon events in one’s life towards divine interv...
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