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S11 E4: Increase Your Luck Surface Area (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz)

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How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area

There's something you call the Springsteen rule. Painters who make it big travel widely. They don't have any different galleries until they stumble on a big break. Producing one work and hoping this one gets big is just a silly life strategy, producing a thousand works, 4,000 works and letting a few of them catch on is a much better life strategy. And if we take too long trying to make something that we think is perfect by our standards, we might be missing the opportunity to get more work out there.

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