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Re: Be more lucky

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Post by karmakaze »

limaoscarjuliet wrote: post #3

Successful people are keen on telling their success story while people who did not win are busy trying agian or have depression in quiet corner, hopefully short term. Any characteristics derived from self-reported or externally observed data that successful group shares is always askewed due to selection or surviorship bias because of this. The only true thing here is: people who analyze the data more and reason base…

Many successes are unintended outcomes while trying to do something else. Without awareness of the opportunity and pivoting, there would be no success to write about (or possibly a different one if lightning struck twice).

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by quadcore »

Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power.

The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings.

This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with people of course. You've got to go with the "flow", read the room, feel the air. Sometimes it almost feels magical. Even the light a particular day will be different and somehow, things are different - the people in the street, the mood of your boss, everything.

The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example.

Do you picture what a person must pull off to get that seat? It's unimaginable. You've got to smell the "bullets" coming miles away before they're even shot, from a shooter you dont even know. Just on a hunch because that day, the light was different.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by ghaff »

Luck favors the prepared and all that.

But leaving aside starting points, etc. I can still think of two specific points in my career that had a pretty much seamless transition that could have gone very badly (and did for a number of co-workers). Yes, I had the network, but they were generally fairly precarious times and things came together very quickly.

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Post by wiz21c »

diputsmonro wrote: post #7

Reminds me of the old phrase, "luck is when preparation meets opportunity". The strategies discussed in this article seem to maximize the "opportunity" side of that equation.

which makes you an opportunist.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by jdeaton »

quadcore wrote: post #12

Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power. The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings. This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with peopl…

I would be interested to know exactly which video of Robert Greene's this is. Just finished reading Mastery this morning. Great author and thinker. He is very in tune with human nature and instinct.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by gosub100 »

Tade0 wrote: post #5

My personal experience is that quite often "luck" is just someone winning via statistics. After all, when you try something that has a 1% probability of success seventy times, it becomes a coin toss whether you succeed at least once. I was "lucky" with the apartment I bought because I've become obsessed with checking listings and at one point was doing it several times a day. Took eight months to find the right prope…

Can you help me understand those types of real estate markets? If they are sold immediately doesn't that mean the sellers are giving up substantial gains by not asking enough?

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by quadcore »

jdeaton wrote: post #15
quadcore wrote: post #12

Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power. The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings. This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with peopl…

I would be interested to know exactly which video of Robert Greene's this is. Just finished reading Mastery this morning. Great author and thinker. He is very in tune with human nature and instinct.

It's on tiktok, where he is active.
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