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So HERE goes Hero#8394875436754349, and hey, THAT guy's a lucky bastard. Gets past thousands of dangers without taking any harm and kills the evil Overlord. Dammit, that guy's good!

Or wait - isn't he? Was he just lucky?

The reason why he managed to kill the Overlord is simple: Nature (you may call it Evolution) gave it a thousands or even a million tries. Even if try # 8 million doesn't work, maybe some future hero will achieve it. Nature will try on and on, regardless how many heroes it has to send out. And in the end, there will be one to manage it at least.
So this book you read about a hero who survives a thousand dangers is in fact not a book about a man with an unbevlievable amount of luck. It's just a book about the one man out of millions who did not fail where all the others failed.

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That's often what people forget about in REAL LIFE, when it comes to actually being born, we were all winners, it was the same struggle of life, but on a entirely different level, in a different environment ... do you have any idea how many sperms didn't make it? Well, if that's indicative for the chance for every individual of 'us' being alive right now, then we must be either very lucky or we simply were the most fit. Usually the 'extremely lucky' ones don't last very long in this "real" world where we are now, since you'll have to be fit enough to be able to deal with the higher difficultly of survival in this next level (compared to your mothers 'womb' that is)..

Cheers