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I'll stick with the proverbial Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Which is actually a generalization of the author's (relativel
by KineticLensman 6y ago
I'll stick with the proverbial Seneca: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Which is actually a generalization of the author's (relatively narrow) thesis where 'opportunity' depends primarily on the people that you meet and the 'preparation' is being passionate about something.
- Closi 6y agoI think this is roughly the same thesis with different words - preparation = doing and telling = creating opportunities.
- dade_ 6y agoExcept Seneca said this 2000 years ago and used far fewer words than this blog post.
- king_magic 6y agoA previous manager of mine told me that same quote years ago. It’s never left me, and has always been a valuable way to look at the world.
- emrah 6y agoThat's a nice quote but I wonder if something was lost in translation. "Preparation" seems too "point-in-time", like you do X, Y, Z and you are ready.. which doesn't seem right. Opportunities in life are moving targets, there is no way to be "prepared" at any point in time. I think a better way to say this would be "Luck is what happens when momentum meets opportunity". So you are engaged with something (like running a SaaS company), something happens (like one of your large competitors goes out of business) and your activities up to that point put you in a spot that makes it possible to benefit from that event.