Omar ZenhomAward Winning Entrepreneur. Founder of The $100 MBA & WebinarNinja.

This Viral Video Gives You the Perfect Excuse to Quit

12 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Omar Zenhom reacts angrily to a viral video that claims successful people are merely lucky. He argues that while luck may play a role, the video's message is "conveniently wrong" because it absolves individuals of responsibility and encourages resignation. Zenhom explains that believing success is random lets people avoid seeking solutions, makes them feel better about their own shortcomings, and serves as an intellectual-sounding excuse. He notes the video's massive view count stems from its resonance with viewers' disappointment, offering a simple answer—"I'm not lucky"—to their lack of success. Zenhom labels the argument irresponsible, as it dresses up a self‑serving excuse in a seemingly rational frame.

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There's a video going viral right now that made me genuinely angry. The central argument around this video is that successful people are just basically lucky, and that's why they're successful. The real problem with this argument about it's all luck is that not that it's wrong, but that it's conveniently wrong. And this is what bothers me the most, is that when people hear this, oh yeah, I'm not successful because I'm just not lucky. All these other people that are successful got lucky. It's not my fault. You are relieved of the responsibility of any solution when you believe success is random. If you believe that there's nothing that you can do to influence your ability to be successful, then you just give up. It's also making you feel better about yourself because it means that you're not doing anything wrong. And here is where the video becomes genuinely irresponsible, in my opinion. It's really dressing up as an intellectual argument that's really just a big excuse. And the reason why it has nearly a million views is because it's confirming a lot of people's feelings about how disappointed they are in their life. There's an answer why they're not doing well. Well, it's just because I'm not lucky.