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Nice breakdown of "luck", which is a word most people are often too vague with.

And funny to see this article and photo of a 4-leaf clover right after my brother dug up a patch of 4-leaf clovers from the house he's moving away from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-leaf_clover says they occur 1/5,000 as often as 3-leaf clovers, but somehow his yard had a bunch of them, which he said it would be fun to keep (not even out of superstition but just as a curiosity).

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That's a cool distinction. Some people use 'being lucky' in a pejorative way, as in: you got lucky to get x, it has nothing to do with your abilities. I always knew there's more to luck than sheer luck.

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