Comments on: Luck, Preparation, and Opportunity https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Thu, 23 May 2013 04:13:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timing Is Everything | SQLRockstar https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-722 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:12:42 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-722 […] a luck factor involved. Well, some call it luck, but I still subscribe to the theory that luck is nothing more than when preparation meets opportunity. If anything, it is the opportunity part where people tend to focus their use of the word […]

]]> By: Another Miracle Trip | SQLRockstar https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-721 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:27:18 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-721 […] I took another trip up to Lake Placid. I wrote about my trip last year in a piece titled “Luck, Preparation, and Opportunity“, to this day one of my favorite blog posts I have written. With my upcoming job change the […]

]]> By: Thirty Years Ago Today... | SQLRockstar https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-720 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:57:58 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-720 […] anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between Team USA and the USSR. I have blogged about the event previously, reflecting upon some recent trips I have made to Lake Placid, […]

]]> By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-719 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:16:26 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-719 In reply to wnylibrarian.

thanks. the funniest part of the “once is lucky, twice is good” lesson is that he often told it to me while we were bowling…candlepin bowling, that is. which is quite a regional thing and most people in the world wouldn’t understand. but if you have ever had the chance to bowl candlepin then you would very much understand why he would say that to me, and others, often enough for me to remember.

]]> By: wnylibrarian https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-718 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:15:56 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-718 First, awesome post! “Once lucky, twice good” is so very true. I also believe in destiny. 1980 was Brooks’ destiny following the events of 1960. There is such a thing as “it was meant to be.” Second, that hockey game brings back incredible memories for all of us. It’s one of those events that are burned into us. I watched the game live, on Canada’s CBC. I didn’t know for years that the game in the U.S. was shown on tape delay.

]]> By: Rob Paller https://thomaslarock.com/2009/06/luck-preparation-and-opportunity/#comment-717 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:02:21 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=2088#comment-717 Great story Tom! Thanks for sharing it.

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