How old are you?

[geodave]

There is no real luck involved.

I totally agree with the buddhist idea that everything is connected.

Well. Luck only applies when things are not completely deterministic. Theoretically, either everything is deterministic or nothing is, depending on how you look at it and how many universes you think there are. Since chaos theory states that we can't possibly measure things closely enough, we might as well treat certain things as random even though they are completely deterministic.

The best you can do is minimize the possiblity of bad outcome and maximize the possibilty of the good. Hedge funds anyone?

I suppose that everything is connected, but not in a way we can actually measure.