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Jiang treats the possibility of luck or randomness as a live interpretive issue by asking whether Dante's story-world believes in randomness at all.
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Luck
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay no he did yeah could he be bringing randomness and luck into this at all"
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay no he did yeah could he be bringing randomness and luck into this at all"
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Jiang presents his own success as luck shaped by migration: he says he was born poor and 'lucked into Yale' after leaving a rigid Canada for the more mobile United States.
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Luck can be strategized but not eliminated: successful people position themselves where luck can happen, but the outcome still depends on luck.
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Luck is not passive fortune in this model; it is personified as something like a pet that can be nurtured by courageous action and lost through cowardice.
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Luck cannot explain Octavian's rise because saying he became emperor by being lucky is circular rather than causal.
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"...okay no he did yeah could he be bringing randomness and luck into this at all"
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"she had a bad luck does does the story believe in in randomness and luck"
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"Okay. That's a really good question. Okay? So we know that there are certain poor kids who do succeed. For example, I'm a poor..."
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"Where women only want five and four. Okay? The reason why is that five and four are high status, and three to one are..."
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"Okay? It's luck. You can work as hard as you want, but the chances are against you. Okay? And it takes a certain personality,..."
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"Can be luck counted as a kind of ability or it's just coincidence?"
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"...good question. Yeah. Okay. Yup. So you're absolutely right. Okay? So luck is a form of strategy. Okay? Strategy. And all this is saying..."
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"...it as a pet who follows you around and it personifies luck. And because it's a pet you can either nurture the pet or..."
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"You nurture it by showing courage. So in battle if you run off if you enter the battle of courage the pet will be..."
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"In this battle what happens is basically Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, they run away from the battle, and then they return to Alexandria and..."
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"You become emperor by being lucky, okay? So that's, that doesn't suffice. Second is, you can say he was brilliant. Julius Caesar was brilliant,..."
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"unluckiest guy in the world where is this luck well maybe it's i don't know anyone else he also"
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