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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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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I actually think it doesn't. There is more adverse selection in most fields than positive selection.
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The reason I say this is because I asked myself "would I like to die as a rather successful 9-5 person or an unknown comedian". I chose comedian. The only way that's sustainable is that I need to be able to enjoy the "failure" state in my chosen extremistan.
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