Editing Luck (section)

===Lack of control===
Luck refers to that which happens to a person beyond that person's control. This view incorporates [[phenomena]] that are chance happenings, a person's place of birth for example, but where there is no uncertainty involved, or where the uncertainty is irrelevant. Within this framework, one can differentiate between three different types of luck:
# Constitutional luck, that is, luck with factors that cannot be changed. Place of birth and genetic constitution are typical examples.
# Circumstantial luck—with factors that are haphazardly brought on. Accidents and epidemics are typical examples.
# Ignorance luck, that is, luck with factors one does not know about. Examples can be identified only in [[hindsight bias|hindsight]].

Circumstantial luck with accidental happenstance of favorable discoveries and/or inventions is [[serendipity]].