Highlights
- you can actively create optimal conditions for lucky things to happen to you
- model of luckiness to a “catchment area”
- do more things, and tell more people about it
- 🌱 Accidental Luck: You have the same luck as a plant. A plant does not move. Whether or not a plant does well pretty much just depends on where it’s seed lands.
- 🏃🏽♀️ Active Luck: The luck you get from constantly moving around. There’s no particular direction in mind, but you’re more likely to find something good if you move around and explore instead of stay put and hope.
- 💊 Prepared Luck: The luck you get from noticing that something lucky has happened, that most would miss.
- “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” - Seneca
- “Chance favors the prepared mind.” - Louis Pasteur
- 🧲 Magnetic Luck: “Chance IV comes to you, unsought, because of who you are and how you behave.”
- Exploring
- Actively Habitual, non Strategic activities
- Prospecting is a highly Active habit, and highly Strategic
- These days, when you look for oil, there is a whole science to handicapping whether or not a plot of land is likely to have oil. You don’t know it for a fact, all you’re doing is estimating probabilities
- move towards areas where you are more likely to be “lucky”.