> To me, an opportunity is when you see a path to enhancing your success. It is not automatically success, and does not imply that no effort is required on your part.
It's not lack of effort that defines opportunity but the reduction of risk. If someone offers me an opportunity, that means I can work hard and have more of a guarantee of success than if I went and did something else.
Opportunity means it's not just your intuition, effort, and resourcefulness that mitigates risk. Some other factor is helping. Some other company or person is offering you crucial advice and resources. Like Dr. Dre mentoring Eminem. That's an opportunity. You have to get lucky to find one, and then you have to be ready to jump on it.
Getting to the top of a mountain always takes effort, it's just a question of how much it takes to get to the top and whether the direction you pick is the right one.
It's not lack of effort that defines opportunity but the reduction of risk. If someone offers me an opportunity, that means I can work hard and have more of a guarantee of success than if I went and did something else.
Opportunity means it's not just your intuition, effort, and resourcefulness that mitigates risk. Some other factor is helping. Some other company or person is offering you crucial advice and resources. Like Dr. Dre mentoring Eminem. That's an opportunity. You have to get lucky to find one, and then you have to be ready to jump on it.
Getting to the top of a mountain always takes effort, it's just a question of how much it takes to get to the top and whether the direction you pick is the right one.