Probability of a potty training incident vs time before dinner burns

This must be some variation of Murphy's Law.

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Luck

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

-- Seneca

(And what an opportunity for Mabel's Labels, the Canadian company that made the personalized bag-tags given with birthday party loot bags for Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling's son Liam. Congratulations Mabel's!)

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Healthy eating

Mmmmm.... doughnuts ...

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Success

Over at Non-Stick Plans, Michael recently posted Ronald Searle’s three requirements for success:

• working discipline,
  
• absolute command of the medium and
  
• constant productivity.

To a certain extent, this is true. However, there is a at least one more ingredient. Circumstance (family, culture, friendship, opportunity and chance) also plays a role in an individual's success, as discussed in Malcolm Gladwell's, book Outliers.

Nonetheless, Searle's thoughts overlap nicely with Gladwell's "10,000-Hour Rule." ("No one gets to the top unless he or she puts in 10,000 hours of practice in a field, be it computer software, hockey, music, or law." -- Business Week review of Outliers)

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