Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Edison understood something counterintuitive: we're not actually blind to opportunity—we simply dismiss it the moment it requires something from us. Most people imagine luck as a sudden windfall, when in truth it usually arrives as an unglamorous task, a tedious project, or a problem nobody else wants to solve. Notice that a surgeon didn't become excellent by waiting to feel inspired; she became excellent by showing up to practice the ungainly, repetitive motions thousands of times. The real tragedy isn't that opportunities pass us by, but that we watch them go and call it bad timing.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to...”
Marcus Aurelius“Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.”
Benjamin Franklin“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin