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> Then maybe one final step of, get super lucky and keep trying until you cant anymore. I think one of the keys here is that you can manufacture a certain amou
by Hermitian909 5y ago
> Then maybe one final step of, get super lucky and keep trying until you cant anymore.
I think one of the keys here is that you can manufacture a certain amount of luck. Perhaps you've heard of the micromort[0] a fascinating statistical tool many countries use to determine how they spend money in healthcare. The general idea is to measure all activities in their chance to add/remove the probability of death even by very tiny amounts, this is applicable to luck.
When you go to a some event that's a networking opportunity, chances are nothing will come of it. You might go to a dozen with no good outcome but your lifetime chances of a good outcome go up once you decide to try to network, it's conceptually useful to think of these events as giving you a few points of "microluck", attending while following the author's advice even more.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
- cehrlich 5y agoThe concept that made this click for me is increasing your “luck surface area”. Unfortunately I don’t remember who to attribute it to.
- chadanon 5y agoCory House from Outlier Developer. Great course on Pluralsite.
- kuhewa 5y agoI'm a marine biologist, often when we fish it is in some difficult circumstances due to species or habitat of interest. A quote passed down from one of my academic great grandparents (that was probably in a discussion about the futility of it all) is that you definitely aren't going to catch any fucking fish if you aren't fishing.