All things equal, having a whatever it takes attitude can be the only ingredient needed to cruise through many of the obstacles life throws your way and come out on top with regards to what you're chasing, whatever that might be.
Maybe luck is a bit of the wild card here, as just recently, I've had this conversation about finding luck with a friend and we both came to the realization that as much as we go out to find luck, it's eventually luck finding us than we actually finding luck.
Part of the reasoning is that there are occasions, albeit, a few of them, where for whatever reason or another, luck falls on your lap, so to speak, while sitting comfortably doing nothing at all.
The other part is all these endeavours we have engaged in over the years, giving it our best, for a relatively extended amount of time and effort without any wind of luck blowing through our way making us temporary believe that eventually luck finding you in whatever you do as long as you keep at it is not an absolute.
Personally, even though it's a futile wish, I wished that eventually getting lucky is an absolute as it just seems logical, straightforward, fair. Part of me will always picture the workings of the universe that way. Because I think there's so much underlying injustice in randomness, i.e how two people can put in the same effort and walk away with vastly different outcomes.
At least with persistence, you can be in the game long enough for the possibility to even exist of luck finding you. The moment you stop, you've made it certain that luck won't find you. Whereas while you're still moving, still trying, the door remains cracked open, if just slightly.
Another angle about persistence that I've been monitoring is what persistence does to you in the meantime.
That is character development via skill sharpening and network expansion of people and possibilities making you in the process not the same person who started the journey. Arguably, I think that's its own kind of reward, although it does give the idea of a consolation prize when you're in the thick of wanting something specific so badly.
The truth is probably something along the lines of persistence matters a lot, but at the end of the day it's not everything. Timing matters. Who you know matters. Where you were born matters. And obviously, luck matters, in ways we can't always control or predict.
Individually, I think the best I can do against this mix of factors is simply refusing to let circumstances be the sole decision making point for me. If I'm going to fail, I'd rather fail knowing I gave it everything than wonder what could have been. At least that way, the outcome is partly mine, not just something that happened to me.
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