The radical part here isn't the defiance—it's Lee's refusal to separate belief from action. Most of us pay lip service to making our own luck while secretly waiting for the right moment; Lee is saying the waiting *itself* is the circumstance you need to reject. When he was building martial arts into a global phenomenon, studios wouldn't hire an Asian actor, so he created his own films and trained anyone willing to learn his methods rather than lobbying the industry to change. That's the difference between complaining about gatekeepers and becoming your own gate.