I'd rather be lucky than good.

[TRGRHPY]

Luck runs both ways...I'd rather be good. The strange luck that saves your butt one minute may be the bad luck that takes your head off the next. Somebody else said something similar, but luck improves with skill development.

Good luck happens and bad luck happens. Both come and go at will and at random. Skill and preparedness are always with you and will help get you through the bad luck, good luck is just a bonus. If you rely on good luck you should realy re-assess your thinking because when bad luck happens, and it will, you will not be prepared to use skill to help you get through it.

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Schofield

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I believe that there is wisdom in the old saw that chance favors the prepared.

Shoot! I want to change my vote.

Too late! You weren't prepared to vote and now yer outta luck

That was a good one! 20 points for being prepared.

 

[2RCO]

Good but Lucky here!

There are some situations that no amount of training can get you out of unless you are lucky as well.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

According to antis and media we are likely to encounter roving gangs of 13 year olds equpped with M249 SAWs and concussion grenades.
In real life every pile of guns recovered from confiscation/shootings/etc. I've seen are by and large comprised of the cheapest hunks of junk you can get your hands on. Lots of lorcins, jennings, guns you'd want your opponent to have if he's going to shoot at you.
I'd rather be good. Luck is too unpredictable and out of my hands. Lots of people were unlucky in WWII too.

 

[BrokenButterfly]

I for one have found it to be true that SMART can take the place of both. If you are adequately SMART then you will appear lucky and be "good"!

Uh okay that is like the dumbest thing I have heard. The choices are Good or Lucky. I pick lucky because you have to be active to be good but luck is completely passive. Good luck trumps good...goodness...

 

[Frank Ettin]

I'll take good. I think it was Thomas Edison who said, "The harder I worked, the luckier I got." Hard work and being "good" breed luck. Education and training are the best ways to get lucky -- in self defense and in life in general.

Pure chance is too fickle and comes in two flavors: good and bad.

 

[cliffy]

If you don't have time to practice . . .

Carry a Battle Axe. cliffy

 

[Gunfighter123]

I guess I must be good -- as I ain't never won the Mega-Millions Lottery !!!!

But I would pick luck as long as it's good luck.

 

[Eightball]

I'd rather be lucky. Why? You can work on getting "good" later on......not so much with working to "be" lucky.

 

[LightningJoe]

I haven't seen many people get by on luck (although I've seen plenty try). Take the problem seriously, put in the hours, own the solution. That's 90% of being good. A lot of the rest is what psychometricians call g.

 

[BrokenButterfly]

The problem here is not everyone is comparing the two equally. So just think that if you had the choice of being whatever level of good you wanted or being the exact same level of luck. It would be better to be perfectly lucky then to be perfectly good.

 

[CapnMac]

Come to cases, I'll take 51% luck and 49% skill. But, I also know I can make my skills better--my luck seems to refuse that sort of influence <frown>

Consider the old saw, "Unlucky at cards, luck at love" do not believe either helped poor old Wild Bill in Deadwood that day.