How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area (Ultimate Guide)

• Sam Matla


• Personal Development

While there are many things in life that we don’t have much control over—including luck—there are strategies we can use to increase our potential for good luck and good opportunities. Practical, actionable things you can do.

Now, let me set the stage for you.

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In startups, the big winners are big to a degree that violates our expectations about variation. I don't know whether these expectations are innate or learned, but whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in outcomes that one finds in startup investing.

Studying a specific person can be dangerous because we tend to study extreme examples—the billionaires, the CEOs, or the massive failures that dominate the news—and extreme examples are often the least applicable to other situations, given their complexity. The more extreme the outcome, the less likely you can apply its lessons to your own life,

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