You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short... See more
Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.
Advice I would give to a college freshman:
These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs
If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these:
• Run your own... See more