>>>>There's another element at work here, though.
>>>>We're definitely lucky when a door suddenly opens for us with no prior activity on our part.
>>>>However- not everyone chooses to walk through that door and that makes all the difference, doesn't it?
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>>>Why does one walk through and another not?
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>>Now there's the attitude that matters - the audacity to throw everything away and start anew, the hunch (or should we call it the sense of probability) that it may turn out well, the (intuitive?) calculation of chances, and perhaps the excitement that prods some people into action while others don't feel adventurous?
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>Where might that kind of attitude come from?

I suspect there are a number of factors. Heredity probably plays some role, but I think experience may be a big factor here. If you've taken a chance in the past and it went well, you're more likely to do so in the future. If that's the case, then having more opportunities in front of you probably helps to build the attitude to take them.

Tamar