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...
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Understand the core motivations of actors in a given situation.
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How does this lead to more luck rather than analysis-paralysis?
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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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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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Here's a thread I did on luck last year:
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I’m torn on how to approach the idea of luck. I’m the first to admit that I am one of the luckiest people on the planet. To be born into a prosperous American family in 1960 with smart parents is to start life on third base. The odds against my very existence are astronomical. twitter.com/morganhousel/s
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look for situations where everyone is very sure of something but that thing doesn't make sense
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The big gap in vernacular narratives is that we are taught to categorize people as being lucky or being good. But in my experience, the most successful are lucky AND good.
Neither the Protestant work ethic nor typical viewer raised on Hollywood tropes knows what to do with that.
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So to answer your question, you can't "do things to get luckier"; that's nonsensical by assumption. (Luck is that which is outside of you causal model.)
But you absolutely can get luckier+gooder!
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