I studied post-production engineering knowing the brutal truth: these engineers don't drive German cars. Even the really good ones with decades of experience struggle financially. But I took the risk anyway, believing this wouldn't be my destiny.
Three years after graduation, that risk looked flimsy. Job security was shaky. The money? Barely there. Still, I kept investing effort towards the risk, holding onto the belief that one day is one day.
A year later, risk met luck. Today, you may find me conversing amidst Germans in Germany... for leisure, akufani. This is my little testimony to the truth that risk and luck are cousins—we just can't tell them apart until later.
In Ordnung, let's go.
Business heroes and their success formulas are worshipped. We think hard work and smart decisions guarantee results. But that's only part of the story.
Take Bill Gates. Brilliant and hardworking, yes. But he also attended one of the only high schools in the world with a computer in 1968—one in a million odds. For every Bill Gates, there are countless equally talented people who just never got that chance. That's because risk and luck are both outside our control.
What I've learned, though, is this: if you stay in the game long enough, take smart shots, and refuse to let your failures define you, the odds start shifting in your favor.
Here's the other side: risk doesn't always meet luck. Sometimes it meets failure—hard, humbling, expensive failure. I can testify to that too. You can make all the right moves and still lose. Your business can collapse. Your savings can vanish. That dream you bet everything on? It might not work out.
But here's what you must keep in mind: failure isn't the end of your story. It's just the end of that chapter.
The same risk that can destroy you can also teach you. Every setback sharpens your instincts. All my failures have built resilience I didn't know I needed. The entrepreneurs who made it aren't the ones who never fell—they're the ones who got back up, adjusted, and tried again.
The year 2025 is coming to an end, and you probably haven't met all your goals or resolutions you had planned out. It happens.
But what can't happen is you folding now—especially because you're aware that risk and luck are relatives. You may not be able to control them, but you can outlast them, learn from them, and eventually, maybe when you least expect it, watch them work in your favor.
Happy Festive, Folks. I know it's been awhile.
Khabazela,
nx ;)
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