HOW TO GET LUCKY — Almanack of Naval Ravikant
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but the reality is if you’re building something interesting, you will always have more people who will want to know you
The first kind of luck is blind luck where one just gets lucky because something completely out of their control happened
Then, there’s luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion. This is when you’re running around creating opportunities.
A third way is you become very good at spotting luck
The last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind, where you build a unique character, a unique brand, a unique mindset, which causes luck to find you.
“In a long-term game, it seems that everybody is making each other rich. And in a short-term game, it seems like everybody is making themselves rich.”
Trying to build business relationships well in advance of doing business is a complete waste of time.
Not in some cosmic, karma kind of way, but I believe deep down we all know who we are. You cannot hide anything from yourself. Your own failures are written within your psyche, and they are obvious to you. If you have too many of these moral shortcomings, you will not respect yourself
I think you just have to be very careful about doing things you are fundamentally not going to be proud of, because they will damage you.
If you are a trusted, reliable, high-integrity, long-term-thinking dealmaker, when other people want to do deals but don’t know how to do them in a trustworthy manner with strangers, they will literally approach you and give you a cut of the deal just because of the integrity and reputation you’ve built up.
Sharks eat well but live a life surrounded by sharks.
“The closer you want to get to me, the better your values have to be.”
Ways to get lucky: • Hope luck finds you. • Hustle until you stumble into it. • Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. • Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny. It starts becoming so deterministic, it stops being luck. The definition starts fading from luck to destiny. To summarize the fourth type: build your character in a certain way, then your character becomes your destiny.
Ways to get lucky: • Hope luck finds you. • Hustle until you stumble into it. • Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. • Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.
HOW TO GET LUCKY
you’re running around creating opportunities.
Your character and your reputation are things you can build, which will let you take advantage of opportunities other people may characterize as lucky, but you know it wasn’t luck.
How important is networking?
A third way is you become very good at spotting luck. If you are very skilled in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in your field, and other people who aren’t attuned to it won’t notice. So, you become sensitive to luck.
Sharks eat well but live a life surrounded by sharks.
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