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How to engineer luck - by George Mack - High Agency

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If you had to double your luck in the next six months, what would you do?

Here’s an absurd but fun thought experiment: If you had to double your luck in the next six months, what would you do? My default low agency response is to freeze at this question. We’re told luck is like weather, something that just happens to us. For 99.9% of human history, the weather was uncontrollable. It simply happened to us. Then we invented air conditioning to escape heat, central heating to survive cold, and refrigeration to preserve food. The harshest climates often develop the best weather engineers. Dubai has some of the world’s most advanced air conditioning. Oslo has some…

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