Lottery Tickets vs. Hard Work

Adam Albrecht
2 min readSep 15, 2024

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My 17-year-old son Johann is a great musician.

He enjoys sharing videos of himself performing music online.

Each video he shares on social media is like a lottery ticket.

He never knows which video might pay off in a Kardashian way, and which videos will fall flat, like Jeb Bush’s ‘Please Clap” speech.

However, the hard work Johann puts into practicing, performing, and recording his music is guaranteed to pay off, like hard work always does.

No luck required.

Here’s a video that my son Johann posted 2 weeks ago on TikTok that, as of this posting, has more than 780,000 views.

This has been a 7 Sentence Sunday Post. Just 7 sentences. (At least just 7 sentences before the little 3-dot divider thingie.) These are quick thoughts before church. Or after church. Or before football if you don’t mark your Sundays with church. Or, if you don’t do church or football, it’s simply 7 sentences before Monday. (Plus this rambling descriptor of how simple the post was supposed to be before I overcomplicated it.)

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Adam Albrecht

Adam Albrecht is the Founder and CEO of the advertising and idea agency, The Weaponry. He believes the most powerful weapon on Earth is the human mind. He is the author of the book, What Does Your Fortune Cookie Say? He also authors two blogs: the Adam Albrecht Blog and Dad Says. Daughter Says., a Daddy-Daughter blog he co-writes with his 16-year old daughter Ava. Adam can be reached at adam@theweaponry.com. View all posts by Adam Albrecht

Originally published at http://adamalbrecht.blog on September 15, 2024.

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Adam Albrecht

I am a growth-minded entrepreneur and author of the book What Does Your Fortune Cookie Say? I share what I'm learning on my journey. And I try to make it funny.