Everyone needs more chances, more benefit of the doubt, more opportunity. But what turns a chance into a big break or an opportunity? What we do with it once the chance arrives is paramount to the result. Some may believe that they deserve a chance and instant success that accompanies it. Others know that work and perseverance must accompany chance as well. What is owed you? Are degrees of success related to degrees of effort and resilience?
Gimmicks are memorable. But they’re gimmicks.
There’s a lot of pressure to make things dumber. Better to make it dumb than to have someone simply walk away, apparently.