Great post! Thanks, swyx. When I think about feeling unlucky, besides privilege, I think about the lack of acknowledgement of your "luck" and the absence of "wins". The first is complicated because when something "lucky" happens to you, you do not perceive that as an output of your initiatives therefore you do not see how you could get more of it. It's hard, but maybe if we were to reason about ours lucky moments we would identify things that worked and things that could be reproducible.
The absence of "wins" is when you do not feel like anything "lucky" happens to you, and there are a lot of things that play and need to be unpacked here. You may not recognise anymore a win because you are in that mindset of unlucky. It may be as well that you are not getting any "lucky" for a long time. These are really bad because they are exhausting, they affect your willpower, and your ability to persevere.
I'm thinking that managing expectations play a big role in continuously creating luck.
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Great post! Thanks, swyx. When I think about feeling unlucky, besides privilege, I think about the lack of acknowledgement of your "luck" and the absence of "wins". The first is complicated because when something "lucky" happens to you, you do not perceive that as an output of your initiatives therefore you do not see how you could get more of it. It's hard, but maybe if we were to reason about ours lucky moments we would identify things that worked and things that could be reproducible.
The absence of "wins" is when you do not feel like anything "lucky" happens to you, and there are a lot of things that play and need to be unpacked here. You may not recognise anymore a win because you are in that mindset of unlucky. It may be as well that you are not getting any "lucky" for a long time. These are really bad because they are exhausting, they affect your willpower, and your ability to persevere.
I'm thinking that managing expectations play a big role in continuously creating luck.