r/Luck • u/lemasney • Aug 02 '25

"Is 'luck' simply a name we give to complex chains of causality that are too difficult for us to perceive?"

Essentially, is luck real?

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u/Sensitive_Judgment23 Aug 03 '25

Luck is in a way a construct / label we give to events that benefit us or harms us in an extraordinary way and that is statistically uncommon . And yes, it involves a chain of events that align for a particular outcome to occur. Luck does not exist as phenomenon that can be traced or understood as a climate phenomenon for example (eg: el niño) , so I 100% agree with your suggestion that it is a name. (Would luck have any meaning outside of human experience ?) ( would a non-conscientious object have any use for the word luck?, take an asteroid for example or a black hole)

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u/lemasney Aug 04 '25

Up until very recently, I've held as part of my beliefs that there's no such thing as luck. I'm starting to reframe what luck is for myself. We could certainly apply the concept of luck (or un-luck) to an errant asteroid as a way of describing the dependent origination of an outcome. Thanks for the kind reply.