And just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that hard work plays no part. I'm suggesting that it plays a much smaller part. In the case of becoming an NBA player, hard work is like actually going down to the gas station to buy the lottery ticket. Most of it is luck, but yeah, you do have to actually buy the ticket as well. It's the much easier part than your numbers being drawn, though.
My little nephew is 4. He is starting to get into sort-of-video games on his phone(don't ask), so I thought I'd get him to play some real video games. So I set up some retro stuff for us. You know, some SNES and Genesis emulators. I have two controllers, and one is mapped like your regular controller. Direction pad, the 4 buttons. Just like a Super Nintendo controller would be. It even looks identical to it, as my little sister got me some PC replica controllers. The other controller has no directional pad mapping and all keys are bound to the jump button. So, I move around and my nephew just presses jump. Or more precisely, presses anything on his controller and it makes the character jump. And when he forgets to, I just press jump on mine. He loves it. He thinks he's amazing at old video games and who am I to ruin this for him?
That's pretty much what life is. If you're lucky enough to have someone else doing most of the controls, all you have to do is press jump. It does take some skill and timing, but it's wholly unlike having to play by yourself and control everything.
