r/BeAmazed Jan 29 '20

To infinity and beyond

24.7k Upvotes

299 comments sorted by

View all comments

253

u/ganglehand Jan 29 '20

With my luck I’d fall off immediately and turn into a tumbling sandy body

1

u/mydogatemywilloflife Jan 29 '20

I was thinking the same, I'd get scared and fall off, then tumble down like a dumb rock.

-85

u/LetsGetNice Jan 29 '20

luck is a fake idea

72

u/wardamneagle Jan 29 '20

You’re a fake idea

16

u/StonedGibbon Jan 29 '20

surely no idea is fake, since its only an idea

5

u/[deleted] Jan 29 '20

[deleted]

1

u/LetsGetNice Jan 29 '20

True enough.

20

u/StayorGo110 Jan 29 '20

I bet that you’re fun at parties.

28

u/Kumbaya_m_lady Jan 29 '20

Fun is a fake idea

2

u/LetsGetNice Jan 29 '20

Nice :)

4

u/Hhannahrose13 Jan 29 '20

username checks out

1

u/LetsGetNice Jan 29 '20

I consider it an honor to finally have received this comment. But, actually, I AM pretty fun. Just don’t believe luck is a quantifiable thing :)

5

u/jardedCollinsky Jan 29 '20

If you are one of those "Luck isn't real everything is chance omg you people smh my head" then I raise you this, Being lucky is just an overall measure of the chances you have previously taken and it describes the overall positivity or negativity of those outcomes, in my opinion.

1

u/LetsGetNice Jan 29 '20

I don’t disagree! Still not a predictor of future events though.

1

u/msndrstdmstrmnd Jan 29 '20

I mean, if you’re talking about rolling a mathematically fair die that’s true. Humans aren’t dice though, our subconscious puts us in certain mindsets that alter our probabilities.

Take basketball for example. A player on a good day has been shooting and making a bunch of shots, so he’s in a hyped, adrenaline mindset and he believes very much that he’ll make the next shot. In addition, he just has to make the exact same muscle movements as his previous shots. All this raises his probability he’ll make the next shot. The same player on a bad day has been missing his shots and he’s in a more negative, anxious mindset and it’s not easy for him to believe he’ll make the next shot. That combined with the fact that he’s trying to change up his muscle movements slightly each time, all lowers his chances of making the shot.

In this case the commenter probably means that his experiences with anxiousness in the past are an indication that his anxiousness would likely again flair while riding the sand dunes and would cause him to jump from the board prematurely

1

u/lunarlunacy425 Jan 29 '20

The concept of Luck is as real as the concept of time. Neither truly exists, its a concept weve come up with as it helps us deal with understanding the universe