Can you synthesize luck? Formula for synthetic luck
Luck is just an oversized corn in a cornfield.
Luck is not without reasons. This is something which we forget whenever we see a lucky person. Imagine your neighbor wins the lottery, and he became a millionaire overnight. You will think, why not me? I am always unlucky. But you forget the fact that you didn't buy a ticket. Anyone could buy a ticket, right? Anyone could go to a casino and win a jackpot, become lucky, if they are willing to bet a horse. As you can see luck doesn't happen automatically. There are series of things happen before luck, and this article is about them.
What happens after luck?
Imagine you win a lottery same time your neighbor wins a million. He buys some fancy car and a house by the beach and lives a lavish life for a while like Millers on the street. I bet his luck would run out after a while. To keep on living his dream, either he has to gamble away or steal. Compare this with you. You have only got 100000 dollars, and this is not enough for you to expend lavishly. So, you just ignore this, divide the sum into 20000 dollars and invest in 5 firms. Life just carries on normally. But each and every day you follow up your investments and see one is doing remarkably well, so you invest more of your money in it. After a decade suddenly the company you invest become a second "Apple company" and you would be named as this incredibly "Lucky" person who invested in the greatest company of 21st century. Nobody would be able to replicate your luck. But you know that was not entirely the story.
Luck is a retrospective label
Life we live make sense only in retrospect. Connecting the dots and making a meaning out of it happens only at the end of it. There are plenty of small actions you can take every day, to change the course of your life in tiny amounts without worrying about goals and outcomes or even luck. You can call this the secret of success. And this is not a secret at all, in every culture, there is a concept about living life day by day. In Japan it is called Kisen, in Indian culture, it is written in Bhagavat Geeta, in modern world Mr. Beast talks about it in his Channel. So, how exactly are you able to create luck? What are the steps?
Cornfield analogy.
A cornfield is an empty opportunity. After each and every harvest, it will be just ground exposed. There is no luck of a harvest as there is nothing planted anymore. But if you start digging up the ground and there will be a lucky rain for you to start sawing some corn seeds. If you work every day and protect your garden these corn plants will grow and will blossom one day. And if you keep on caring for it, field will survive until they develop corn, and you might be lucky enough to witness the biggest corn you have ever seen in your life. When it does, your neighbor will say you have been lucky. But you will smile to yourself as it wasn't about luck. You just followed a lucky formula in a power law field, consistently. So, what is this synthetic luck formula?
Formula for synthetic luck
You get exposed to experience ->
You are being aware and present to see opportunity ->
Your mind interprets this as an opportunity ->
You take necessary action ->
You consistently take action without thinking about outcome ->
Something Lucky happens.
If we think about it, everyone gets lucky every day. Just some choose to doom scroll, and others try to improve their skills or enjoy a sunset instead.
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