They embraced their opportunity and then did something extraordinary with it. “Luck, good and bad,” Collins wrote, “happens to everyone, whether we like it or not.” But when we look at those who achieve extraordinary success, we see people “who recognize luck and seize it, leaders who grab luck events and make much more of them.”21

Musicians often attribute career success to fate or destiny. They say it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time, getting “discovered,” or just being lucky. Unfortunately, this kind of thinking leads to a passive approach: to simply letting things happen as they will. My goal is to fundamentally change this thinking and promote the