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The concept of "bad luck" is reinforced by endless self-comparison with those who had extremely good luck.

It's MUCH more valuable to compare yourself to those who are unlucky: the mentally disabled, those who died from COVID at age 29, those born/raised in North Korea. Compared to these people, we've all hit the fucking jackpot.

Adjust your mindset and you'll notice you're luckier than you thought you were.

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Comparing yourself to people born in North Korea, etc. isn't actionable though. In other words, so what, other people are more unlucky than me? I know that already.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.” -- George Orwell, 1984

Frankl was a holocaust concentration camp survivor. I don't think that's exactly what he was getting at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

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