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🍀 The Four Types of Luck
Do you believe in luck? More to the point, do you believe that you can do anything to make you luckier in your creative career? To catch more lucky breaks?
You probably have someone in your life who always seems to somehow get lucky. Things just seem to work out for them.
They go to a coffee shop and end up meeting the CEO of a company and getting a job offer.
They go out on the town and somehow end up in the VIP room partying with a celebrity.
They go to a concert and end up backstage hanging with the band.
As it turns out, this blessed friend is likely doing something to influence their lucky outcomes.
They are increasing their luck surface area.