In this world there is luck and there is skill....and then there's this wonderfully happy place where a great deal of skill, experience, and preparation mesh with a little bit of luck and produce a good result.
I remember watching Michael Jordan score 60 points in a playoff game against the Portland Trailblazers where every time he threw the ball it seemed to go through the net. He sank one particularly unlikely 3 pointer from almost half court without even touching the rim that caused him to shrug his shoulders as if to say "Even I don't know how I made that shot."
It would be a mistake, however, for the guy in the stands to think that his "luck" would look like Michael Jordan's "luck", you know what I mean?
Yes, I'm sure that some luck was involved in making two back-to-back sniper shots at over a mile...but it's the kind of "luck" you can only have if you exist on that plane where making a mile + combat shot is within your reach in the first place.
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