Lucky or skillful? There isn't much luck without skill, and vice versa.

They aren't the same, just typically enmeshed. Any skill you have, you once had the capacity for it, the opportunity to develop it, and the desire to do so: three pieces of luck.

In effect, skill is just luck that happened in the past. Perhaps it included effort. But the most incompetent person could also have been making efforts.

We understand the meaning and basic principle of evolution, yet we fail to recognize how much is random.

Most of what you define as yourself is the luck of the draw.

It's a little unsettling, I know. And we need to be careful not to let this undermine our efforts. But there it is, no worse for the wear of our feelings.