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Episode 15 - Part 1: Luck. How far can it bring you?
10 minutes Posted Mar 12, 2018 at 12:50 am.
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Luck. How far can it bring you?

Music: “Just A Blip” by Andy G. Cohen

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/why-luck-matters-more-than-you-might-

think/476394/

- Definition: success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own

actions.
- Most people give luck more credit than it is due. Sunny skies that happened when you
REALLY needed it? Luck. Cloudy and rainy day on someone else's parade? Bad luck. Also, we
tend to blame luck when sometimes, a lack of planning on our side could be more likely. 
- Luck means different things to different people. Some people pick up a coin and call it
lucky. Some people pick up the same coin and call it unlucky because it's associated with
some bad history. 
- Some people go even further and associate fortune and luck with religion instead. That
they were "chosen" to receive such good fortune when it favors them. And the same would
also take it personally when it goes against them.
- Talk about my own experience with luck and how; generally, I'm considered an "unlucky"
person except when it comes to what matters in life - career, work and money (sometimes).
Luck is ultimately a perspective thing. 
"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act" - Barbara Sher
- In Frans Johansson’s book The Click Moment; he states that for activities with clear
fixed rules; sports, chess, and music — the only way to succeed is to put in more
deliberate practice than your peers. For activities with rapidly evolving and changing
rules — such as business or investing — success comes when you change the rules to a new
configuration that catches the opportunity at just the right time. 
- The reality would be something more in the middle. In both activities; it is the
deliberate act of persistence and not giving up which would eventually open up more
opportunities.