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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2019
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    What are your personal rules for getting luckier? Beyond the commonly recognized ones like: be in the right place at the right time, spot and join bandwagons early, be open to new experiences...

    10:39 AM - 13 Jan 2019
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      2.  🎙 Piyush Maverick Tainguriya Customer Support 🎙‏ @MangoZeus 13 Jan 2019
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        Choose a career in which you're just happy to be there. Choose a lifestyle whose downsides you enjoy. Eg. Only someone who's fine killing puppies should become a vet. Everyone loves curing animals but very few can kill puppies.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2019
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        This is perilously close to an argument for adverse selection though: "go where you'd count as a bad person". Become a vet if you're a sadist, become a soldier if you're a sadomasochist etc. Go to wall street if you enjoy defrauding people.

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      2. Zubin Wadia‏ @zubinwadia 13 Jan 2019
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        Understand the core motivations of actors in a given situation.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2019
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        How does this lead to more luck rather than analysis-paralysis?

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      2. 『S T R A N G E L I F T』‏ @strnglft 13 Jan 2019
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        do things frequently

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2019
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        Example? I don’t understand this

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 13 Jan 2019
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        Build a lucky social graph

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      3. Matt Wensing  🐙‏ @mattwensing 13 Jan 2019
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        Insane but true: one time a secret service agent told the leader of our accelerator that the White House has requested our startup present to the POTUS first because the WH were users of our web app. Extreme hustle->extreme luck surface area->extreme serendipity.

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      1. The Charlieton‏ @TheCharlieton 13 Jan 2019
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        The people on the very fringes of your network are your greatest source of luck. Your core group knows what you know & you know what they know The friend of your friend who you briefly chatted w/ a year ago is far more likely to open a lucky door for you H/T @RichardKoch8020

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      2. Sidu Ponnappa‏ @ponnappa 13 Jan 2019
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        * Increase interactions with lucky people. * Treat luck as "bursty" - it's easier to get lucky when already under the influence of a luck event, harder once the effects have "decayed" * Track and manage personal negativity, it blinds one to luck Meta:https://twitter.com/ponnappa/status/1084115887777443840 …

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        Sidu Ponnappa @ponnappa
        Luck is not in our control. Recognizing when we get lucky and acting on that realization in a timely manner, is. Over time I realised the hardest thing for me was to realise when serendipity was happening to me and to change my plans to suit. https://twitter.com/ponnappa/status/1084060327728185344 …
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      3. Sidu Ponnappa‏ @ponnappa 13 Jan 2019
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        Oh yes, train the mind to be comfortable taking decisions under pressure and with risks, ideally in controlled environments where things *feel* much more risky than they actually are. Luck feels very risky when it happens. It's one of the reasons I ride on the racetrack.

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