Stoic Coffee Break

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”― SenecaAre you a lucky person?The Stoics understood that most things in life are out of our control.The reason that they stress that ideas so much, that we try so hard to control things around us.Trying to control things outside yourself causes yourself and others a lot of suffering.Other people, events, and circumstances are certainly outside of our control.So much of our life is simply up to chance.The people we meet and become friends with and fall in love with.The jobs that we get because of being the right place at the right time.So many things that just happened by chance, and all of them outside of our control.In the Drunkard’s Walk, a book about the role of randomness and chance in our lives, Leonard Mlodinow, after showing example after example about how poorly we as humans misjudge the role of chance in our lives goes on to say, “...ability does not guarantee achievement, nor is achievement proportional to ability. And so it is important to