• ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A person once told me that in life you need to learn to be lucky. When I asked him how to learn that he replied that you need to want to be lucky. And that’s it.

    He was very serious and, to some extent, I think he wasn’t saying something crazy (and in fact he’s been very successful in his life, without resorting to help from others).

    I think he meant we make our own luck: we work as hard as possible to create several occasions and maybe we screw lots of them but, if we try, try again, we can seize some of them.

    I suppose the message really was: you need to be persistent. If you’re so dedicated, you end up grabbing some opportunities you didn’t even know existed (but you kind of created)

    Thanks for coming to my TED talk… Be lucky!

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        8 months ago

        That’s an interesting (though different) take of how people can convince you to be lucky!

        Wow, this book actually claims thinking can change reality to make it how you’d like it…

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      8 months ago

      That’s the “tenacity” bit in this comic.

      You won’t get lucky and win the lottery unless you buy a ticket. But there’s still a huge amount of luck involved once you make the effort.