How to Create the Luck Required for a Successful Career | by Richard Yang (@richard.ux) | Curious | Medium

No matter what career you’re pursuing, luck plays a role, whether you like it or not. There are four different kinds of luck: Accidental, magnetic, accidental, and prepared. Some luck you have no control over, but others you can influence with your actions. If you want a successful career, you need to learn to capture luck instead of waiting around for it. Many people believe in binary luck; you’re either lucky or you’re not. I disagree; I believe you can create your own luck. “Great men become great because they have been able to master luck. What the vulgar call luck is a characteristic of genius.” — Napoleon Bonaparte The kind of “self-created” luck I believe in is closely related to Jason Robert’s concept of “luck surface area.” It’s the idea that although luck is randomly occurring, you can do certain things to position yourself in a way that captures more of it. To create the largest luck surface area possible, you need to understand the four different kinds of luck. The classic

No matter what career you’re pursuing, luck plays a role, whether you like it or not. There are four different kinds of luck: Accidental, magnetic, accidental, and prepared. Some luck you have no control over, but others you can influence with your actions. If you want a successful career, you need to learn to capture luck instead of waiting around for it. Many people believe in binary luck; you’re either lucky or you’re not. I disagree; I believe you can create your own luck. “Great men become great because they have been able to master luck. What the vulgar call luck is a characteristic of g