Intelligence,luck or wealth

Frank the tank
Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
If you could have more than your fair share of one of these, which would it be?

I think I would plump for luck.
Tail end Charlie

The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.

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  • Ieuanllan
    Ieuanllan Posts: 152
    +1 for luck - the rest would follow!
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Intelligence.

    If you're smart and hard working wealth comes naturally.

    I tend to find the most succesful people make their own luck.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • andrewjoseph
    andrewjoseph Posts: 2,165
    All of 'em, I need all the help I can get!
    --
    Burls Ti Tourer for Tarmac, Saracen aluminium full suss for trails
  • Woodchip
    Woodchip Posts: 205
    How about Charisma? With charisma you can win people over so you won't need the intelligence or money, as you could become a con artist. You might need some luck to get away with it though.
    I have nothing more to say on the matter.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    With wealth you can buy the other two?
    The older I get the faster I was
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    nolf wrote:
    Intelligence.

    If you're smart and hard working wealth comes naturally.

    I tend to find the most succesful people make their own luck.

    Living with teacher parents, I disagree that the wealth comes naturally from hard work and intelligence. I also know of plenty of other intelligent people who work hard but, compared to others, don't really get the wealth. Of course this is all relative, using a modern Western country to judge, and compared to the vast majority of people who have ever lived we lead a life of luxury.

    I'll go for luck - as in being lucky enough to be born into the right family. I have a degree but I'll be the first to admit that things like this are very much a question of birth. Too many of my schoolmates were actively discouraged from working hard at school by their parents, and I was therefore born with what I see as a massive advantage over them.
  • NWLondoner
    NWLondoner Posts: 2,047
    I'd take the wealth.
  • volvicspar
    volvicspar Posts: 208
    Intelligence, wealth or luck ? What good are they, they don't make me much faster on my bike :lol: I'll take good speed and strength over all of those please. :oops:

    I'll get me coat :roll:
  • BigDarbs
    BigDarbs Posts: 132
    Intelligence every time, wealth will follow, and there is no such thing as luck.

    Ther are 4 things that affect everything we do.

    1 - Good planning
    2 - Bad planning
    3 - Good coincidence
    4 - Bad coincidence

    What people call luck is actuallly really coincidence, the most successful people rely on good planning with a little bit of good coincidence.

    I feel I have done OK over the past 20 years, and this way of thinking has been fairly successful for me. Planning works, and always assume you can alter the outcome of most situations to ensure you come out on top.
  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    It has to be wealth since you can then hire the intelligent people. Luck is just chance/right place,right time and the rich leave little to chance. However.....if I was wealthy, I'd prefer good wealth eg using the money philanthropically as opposed to Paris Hilton wealth. Good health is also a big plus. No point in being rich,clever,lucky if you have Motor Neurone or MS (unless you can come up with a cure by being intelligent or hiring the boffins.
    M.Rushton
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Is it not a question of good luck you don't have MS or motor neurone disease?

    You could pehaps gain your wealth by having a horrid accident and getting compo. Not the best way to aquire wealth.

    Inetellegence is great, we all benefit from it. But IMHO good fortune is invaluable.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    Sincerity.

    Once you can fake that, you've got it made
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    Intelligence is over-rated.

    I'd go for wealth on this one... that's why most people opt for intelligence & luck anyway (to get rich). :lol:
    vertebr.ae | precision braking & shifting
  • AndyRubio
    AndyRubio Posts: 880
    Sorry to be cheesey and smug but I'm happy with what I've got.

    [sound of puking]

    Fraid so.
    My hour on the plinth
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    AndyRubio wrote:
    Sorry to be cheesey and smug but I'm happy with what I've got.

    [sound of puking]

    Fraid so.

    Nowt wrong with being contented mate.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    I'm content with what I have too... but this is just a hypothetical question. Nowt wrong with that either... :)
    vertebr.ae | precision braking & shifting
  • bexley5200
    bexley5200 Posts: 692
    lance armstrongs legs
    going downhill slowly
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    johnfinch wrote:
    nolf wrote:
    Intelligence.



    Too many of my schoolmates were actively discouraged from working hard at school by their parents, and I was therefore born with what I see as a massive advantage over them.

    seriously - actively DISCOURAGED??????
    "There are holes in the sky,
    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Not one of the choices, to cut a long story short, my 8 year old daughter has just had an awful time away, became extremely homesick and boy, did I miss her. I went and brought her home early after giving the people who were supposed to be looking after her a piece of my mind. For that and lots of other reasons, I choose 'family'.
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Luck (or should that be good fortune?)
    Wealth & intelligence won't stop you getting ill health,will they?
    so many cols,so little time!
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Not one of the choices, to cut a long story short, my 8 year old daughter has just had an awful time away, became extremely homesick and boy, did I miss her. I went and brought her home early after giving the people who were supposed to be looking after her a piece of my mind. For that and lots of other reasons, I choose 'family'.

    Having a good family is luck.

    I remember my mates wife having a baby, he's had the "luck" to be born into a loving caring family.

    The baby across the ward had a mother who was a heroin addict and dad was similar.

    Which child would you think has the best chance of success in life.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    nolf wrote:
    Intelligence.

    If you're smart and hard working wealth comes naturally.

    I tend to find the most succesful people make their own luck.

    In life intelligence counts for very little in most cases.

    Everyone needs luck.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Not one of the choices, to cut a long story short, my 8 year old daughter has just had an awful time away, became extremely homesick and boy, did I miss her. I went and brought her home early after giving the people who were supposed to be looking after her a piece of my mind. For that and lots of other reasons, I choose 'family'.

    Having a good family is luck.

    I remember my mates wife having a baby, he's had the "luck" to be born into a loving caring family.

    The baby across the ward had a mother who was a heroin addict and dad was similar.

    Which child would you think has the best chance of success in life.


    You've missed my point. Having well behaved, loving children isn't luck, it's how I've/we've brought them up. It may be lucky who the child is born too but it's not luck to have them that way.
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Not one of the choices, to cut a long story short, my 8 year old daughter has just had an awful time away, became extremely homesick and boy, did I miss her. I went and brought her home early after giving the people who were supposed to be looking after her a piece of my mind. For that and lots of other reasons, I choose 'family'.

    Having a good family is luck.

    I remember my mates wife having a baby, he's had the "luck" to be born into a loving caring family.

    The baby across the ward had a mother who was a heroin addict and dad was similar.

    Which child would you think has the best chance of success in life.


    You've missed my point. Having well behaved, loving children isn't luck, it's how I've/we've brought them up. It may be lucky who the child is born too but it's not luck to have them that way.

    I agree with those sentiments Aggieboy.

    Parenting is the toughest job anyone can choose to undertake.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'd have to go for wealth so i could afford to send my 2 boys with Aspergers to the excellent school we want them to go to. feel guilty at the moment 'cos if we re-mortgaged we could afford for one but not two.

    Wealth it is.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Special K wrote:
    johnfinch wrote:
    Too many of my schoolmates were actively discouraged from working hard at school by their parents, and I was therefore born with what I see as a massive advantage over them.

    seriously - actively DISCOURAGED??????

    Yes, seriously. Their parents actually told them not to bother with working at school. Barely believable but true.
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    For me? Not one of the choices but I'd go for "happiness". Neither wealth, intelligence nor luck guarantees that (although, with wealth at least you can be miserable in comfort).

    If I had to choose, I guess it would have to be luck (good luck, to be specific), because having a miserable life would seem to me to be bad luck. And if you're happy, then what does it really matter how intelligent or how wealthy you are?

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