How to Be More Agentic
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How to Be More Agentic
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#3I liked the author’s idea of finding rough edges that other people don’t want to deal with. Unlike the author, I have always been a bit of a slacker, working just part time most of my life. That said, I do think that when I do work I like rough edges! Good read.
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Luck happens to those who let it.
Random opportunity comes along, you happen to be in a position to take advantage of it, and you happen to see it as it arrives.
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You can directly control the amount of luck you receive:
“Your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.”
How to increase your luck surface area (2010) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751
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Luck happens to those who let it. Random opportunity comes along, you happen to be in a position to take advantage of it, and you happen to see it as it arrives.
What’s with all the woo hoo here on HN? The very definition of the word luck goes against your “frame it on the wall” feely good saying.
“success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.”
but I guess you’re also saying that people who get cancer are just letting it happen? Maybe they should’ve investigated the edges. You see there are two types of luck, good luck and bad luck. How do you know if by increasing your good luck in one area you’re not increasing your bad luck in another?
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You can directly control the amount of luck you receive: “Your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.” How to increase your luck surface area (2010) — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751
The very definition of the word luck goes against what you’re saying.
“success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.”
This is a saying that sounds good, but makes no sense. For example, how do you change your luck of getting a coin to flip 90% of the time on tails?
So you would say that one was lucky if they flipped a coin 10 times and nine times out of 10 It landed on tails when they needed it to land on tails. But you know what? If they needed it to land on heads those nine out of 10 times they would be unlucky.
What you all are talking about is not luck, it’s opportunity. You can increase your opportunity, but your luck never changes.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Luck happens to those who let it. Random opportunity comes along, you happen to be in a position to take advantage of it, and you happen to see it as it arrives.
What’s with all the woo hoo here on HN? The very definition of the word luck goes against your “frame it on the wall” feely good saying. “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.” but I guess you’re also saying that people who get cancer are just letting it happen? Maybe they should’ve investigated the edges. You see there are two types of luck, good luck and bad luck. Ho…
"Apparently" doesn't mean "actually".
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There is that old lottery promo "you can't win if you don't play". There is this quote: "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take. Even though there is only a 1-5% probably of scoring". There is the saying 9 times down 10 times up.
Getting lucky is a function of trying, as well. Saying you have to get "lucky" isn't about luck, it's about a mentality of keep at it.