In Monopoly you can be a victim of chance (specifically those pesky Chance cards) and have bad luck via a bad roll of the dice.
But in spite of this, there are people who are very good at Monopoly. I’ve played against them.
It’s easy to say ‘well, they’re lucky and I’m not’. But after being beaten again and again…it’s not that luck doesn’t have anything to do it, or that un-luck has everything to do with it…
It’s that within the game of Monopoly there are many elements you can be good at.
So you can focus on the luck/unluck, which is definitely a real thing…or you can accept the fact that luck exists in the game and instead choose to focus on getting good at Monopoly.
Yes, this is like the music business.
You can talk on and on and on about this person getting lucky and that person getting lucky, and you being unlucky all the time.
Maybe you’re right. But so what?
Yeah, there’s luck involved.
But you can also be good at the music business.
Eventually you learn that focusing on luck (usually in the form of complaining) is only taking time away from getting good.
p.s. I’ve found in losing Monopoly I’ve lost the most money the most often by paying out on the purples and oranges. So there’s gotta be something there.
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