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Re: Be more lucky

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Post by keybored »

snowpid wrote: post #26
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…

" The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example. " You mean that guy who brings Chinese economy into troubles and just does one genocide (or two, if you count Tibet).

I love how grand parent used that as an example instead of some boring “business luminary”. Now people are gonna politi-rage in a third of the replies.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by keybored »

wiz21c wrote: post #14
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.

Interesting juxtaposition.

A proper opportunist (what the word means) grabs opportunities for the sake of and in spite of being morally obligated to take other things into consideration.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by filoleg »

tropdrop wrote: post #31
wdh505 wrote: post #6

Luck has been associated with "happiness" in many cultures across the last few thousand years. There is a concept of management accounting of "rewarding for b while hoping for a". I think the soft focus that allows for creativity helps "luck", but everyone who "knows better than you" wants to proud out good behavior by rewarding for b.

In support of this: in Russian, the adjective for "lucky" and "happy" is the same – schastlivyi . Though a more precise variant that specifically means "lucky" exists ( udachlivyi , meaning possessing greater chances), schastlivyi is more often used to describe a person, with the semantic content being that they are both happy and lucky. For example, the famous Tolstoy quote about unhappy families being different and…

> In support of this: in Russian, the adjective for "lucky" and "happy" is the same – schastlivyi.

Where are you getting this info from?

I am a native speaker, and the two words one would typically use for “lucky” in Russian are “везучий” or “удачливый”. I’ve never heard of“счастливый” being used to refer to any kind of luck or even allude to it. If someone asked me to translate that word, it is straight up the exact same as what “happy” is in english, no different/extra connotations or anything.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

d--b wrote: post #36

My mum just finds 4-leaf clovers everywhere. It’s not serendipity, she looks for them, but she has the uncanniest ability to find them. Similarly my wife can spot animals in the wild like a drone, it’s insane. She’d be the woman on the boat saying “look! Dolphins!”. We go diving together and she sees 10 times the amount of stuff I can see. I dont think this has anything to do with focusing or not, and letting things…

To the clover half of your anecdote I can add my own: there was an elderly neighbor whose front yard had clover, and a surprising amount of four, five, or even six leaf clover. My friends and I would browse in the yard every spring, and we all found something.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by aoppaol »

Imagine a group of people on vacation in Spain. They decide to take a tour bus to visit a new town a few hours away.

About halfway into the journey the bus engine dies and the bus comes to a halt and can no longer continue.

Half the people storm off the bus complaining. “How could this happen??” “Our vacation is ruined!” “Worst vacation ever!!”

The other half gets off the bus and says, “Let’s explore this area today!”

I consider myself a very lucky person. Being lucky doesn’t mean nothing bad happens. It means when things go wrong, we are like water and easily adjust to the new circumstances.

The way to be lucky is to built these three essential ingredients: Resilience, Optimism and Gratitude.

I would go further and say the key to a great life is Resilience, Optimism and Gratitude.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by swagasaurus-rex »

sandspar wrote: post #38

I think of Charlie Munger's "good investment is knowing when it's wise to not diversify". The luckiest people I know tend to have a soft, scattered approach as advocated in the article, followed by striking hard and quadrupling down when they find something that works. Arnold Schwarzenegger is very lucky and he uses that strategy. "My genetics and frame are perfect for body building? Guess I'll quadruple down on it."

Schwarzenegger had posters of body builders on his wall growing up. He was dedicated to it from the beginning.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by yogorenapan »

I find luck very strange. On one hand, I try to be rational and interpret it as just statistics. On the other, I sometimes get creeped out at seemingly “too good to be true” luck. As in sometimes money just falls from the sky among other seemingly impossible things.

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by gessha »

IshanMi wrote: post #24

I remember someone telling me that they thought of luck as being as one of four kinds: - blind luck (which is what people usually mean by "luck") - stirring the pot (if you apply to 100 jobs you might get more "luck" than if you applied for just 10) - domain expertise (the more knowledge you have, the more opportunities you can spot that others might miss) - reputation (if you're the world's best painter then when pe…

Swyx talked about it in his blog post which gets resubmitted every year or so:

https://www.swyx.io/writing/create-luck

Re: Be more lucky

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Post by ffsm8 »

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…

> It is not luck, but yes, might look like one.

Are you equating luck with random chance? Because it totally is luck, even if it's not random chance

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