How To Make Your Own Luck

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18 pointsterpua4 comments

The best advice I ever heard about luck was: "Be prepared to get lucky."

If only luck can save you, do everything as if you will get lucky. Not because of positive attitude and stuff like that but purely so you can take full advantage of a lucky break no matter how improbable.

Thats interesting. I've always thought that you should be prepared to be UNLUCKY -- that way if the worst stuff happens to your business, you will be ready for it, and if the best stuff happens, its all gravy.

Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.

Both of you got it right -- the value is in being ready to adapt to change.

I'd like to ask Mr. Wiseman what he thinks about the statement "correlation doesn't imply causation".

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