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How to Create Your Own Luck

Feb 26, 2025

Success often disguises itself as luck, but it’s really about preparation and opportunity. Through a personal story, the importance of nurturing connections is highlighted as key to unexpected endorsements. The discussion unfolds four actionable principles for creating your own lucky breaks: enlarge your luck surface area, diligently work behind the scenes, take calculated risks, and maintain persistence. These insights offer a roadmap to transform potential into reality, proving that luck favors those who take initiative.

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Expanding your luck surface area through new experiences and networking increases the chances of serendipitous opportunities in life.

Following through on connections and maintaining relationships is essential for turning initial interactions into significant career advancements.

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Increasing Luck Surface Area

Creating more opportunities for luck involves actively expanding one's 'luck surface area.' This can be achieved by engaging in new experiences, meeting diverse people, and consistently sharing ideas online. By making deliberate efforts to connect with optimistic and ambitious individuals, one increases the likelihood of fortuitous events occurring in their life. Sitting passively at home hinders such opportunities; embracing proactive behavior in the world is crucial for attracting luck.

Creating Your Own Luck Through Opportunity and Connection

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Creating Your Own Lucky Breaks: Four Essential Principles

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Last weekend, I experienced an overnight success that was years in the making. It was a seemingly lucky break that had very little to do with luck.

The story of how it happened carries several important lessons for life—principles any of us can apply to create more luck in our own lives.

4 principles to create more luck: (1) Increase your luck surface area, (2) Work hard in the darkness, (3) Shoot your shot, and (4) Follow through.

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