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Swift Rank Recovery is Part Experience, Part Luck

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Despite losing to Poland, Andy Murray is still going strong on the courts.  This is in large part due to sheer determination, but there has to be a certain amount of luck that goes into the equation as well.  Of course, luck can never be counted on, and it’s certainly an impossible thing to measure, but perhaps it should be considered.  In a swift rank recovery such as this, where a major loss often turns around in a short amount of time, there are ways of looking at the numbers to realize that it isn’t just statistics we’re dealing with here.

Statistics are very difficult to count on anyway, especially if dealing with the age old pursuits of money or fame.  If the numbers were every truly reliable, then there would be only one formula, instead of the thousand that flood the marketplace every year with their new-fangled keys to success.  Luck and its own mercurial nature needs to play a bigger part in these determinations, because luck is the only common factor in looking at fame on a global scale such as this.  But luck, of course, is a funny thing.  It is that very character that defines chaos theory, behaving as both a particle and a wave, and it’s often delightful to watch people who think they have it.

It’s a bit like watching a dog chase a laser light on the wall.  Even the dog seems to know it’s not really there, and never will be, but it’s a very distracting thing, and it seems to be a great pleasure to be distracted in exactly that way.   Luck always behaves this way, and it disappears without giving any good reasons.  There are reasons why it is related in Greek myths to the God Mercury.  It does tend to play the role of the trickster, especially when people are actively looking for it.  This, in part, is one of the more fascinating things about fame that comes to sports figures such as Murray.  There is substance to the fame, and there is also an uneasy sense that it could disappear very quickly.  This makes it even more heartening when it does not go away.

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