All the things you described can also increase your bad-luck surface area. You are confusing bad-luck with inaction, which is not the same. You might end-up mee

All the things you described can also increase your bad-luck surface area. You are confusing bad-luck with inaction, which is not the same. You might end-up meeting wrong people, work on wrong ideas, hire wrong people, get wrong publicity, wrong timing etc etc.