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Luck: The Impact Outside Your Control

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  Iconic photograph of former US president Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt After reading about Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt, my friend remarked, "Kitna lucky tha! Agr ek inch bhi idhr udhr hota toh...". Ofcourse. when you compare this to John F. Kennedy's tragic assassination, it's clear that  luck  was on Trump's side. Let me tell you a story from my school days. In class 9th ,We had two English teachers: S. Ali sir and M.K. Sinha sir. Each of them are very different from each other with respect to teaching, giving assignment and evaluating answersheet. S. Ali sir was very punctual in all matters and he read every words from answersheet very carefully and give marks accordingly. M.K. Sinha sir was a rare breed, He never bothered to take classes, neither to give assignments nor to ask about it ,No matter how much talented you are, whatever you written in your answersheet you will get just pass mark or simply you will be f...